George Steiner

George Steiner was one of the greatest European humanists of our times. Having fled the increasing anti-Semitic violence in Europe, he spent a large part of his youth in the United States. There, he studied linguistics and humanities, finishing his studies at Harvard and Oxford. He held professorships in the United States, England, Austria and Switzerland and wrote essays and literary criticism for publications such as The Guardian and The New Yorker. In his essays, Steiner dealt with literature, ethics, social developments and radical evil. Among his many publications are Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman (1967), In Bluebeard’s Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture (1971), After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (1975), Antigones: The Antigone Myth in Western Literature, Art and Thought (1984), Real Presences (1986), No Passion Spent: Essays 1978–1995 (1996), Grammars of Creation (2001) and The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan (2011). Steiner has been a regular guest of the Nexus Institute, which has published his highly influential Nexus Lecture The Idea of Europe (2004)

The Nexus Institute published the highly influential lecture The Idea of Europe (2004) and Universitas? (2013). Im Raum der Stille: Lektüren (2010) is discussed in Nexus Review.