Interview with George Steiner, part two

The second part of an interview with the literary critic and writeer George Steiner, made in 2007. For a higher quality (downloadable) version, and many video interviews of others, please see www.alanmacfarlane.com


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[toolesttool]

Anyone knows who's the interviewer?

[ayabaya]

It is Alan Macfarlane (details on wikipedia) of University of Cambridge

[hegeleian]

'His Heidegger booklet is impressing with superficiality.'

Well you could hardly expect an in-depth textual and intellectual exegesis in a book entitled 'Introduction to'; perhaps a rather weak criticism.

[perseus07]

don't be so unfair,in times where ignorance and harshness prevail,it is not so bad to hear a cultivated person.

[eslubin]

12:34 this video is watching just for the pain on Steiner's face in forcing himself to reference Harry Potter. LOL

What a tremendous interview, especially the last 30-35 mins

[benthejrporter]

Thanks for posting this interview with such an intelligent and elloquent thinker. I wonder if he's any relation to Rudolf.

[shalimarite]

"If you don't commit great creative mistakes when you're young, the rest of your life is largely wasted. "

[scowlee]

An alluvial plural bell.

[1qewretry]

what a wonderful man. does he still teach at cambridge? what do you study to have a tutorial with him?

[von1933]

Thiis man is brilliant. One could truly be envious of his training and his being steeped deeply in three languages and three cultures. But this is not all. He has been truly creative in dealing and bringing to fruition his incomparable background.

His distractors, sadly provincial as most of them are, will be long forgotten, while his ideas will be seminal to many..

[carolingianguy]

his literary comments are superficial generalisations, also snobbish, too much an enthusiaste, but stimulating nonetheless to the undergraduate in all of us, Language and Silence his best book, interviewer knows nothing about literature