tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383427572957027459.post5246915795222713686..comments2024-01-12T10:42:23.401-05:00Comments on The Legacy of Henry Corbin: George Steiner on the Secular AgeTom Cheethamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985087642903754121noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383427572957027459.post-17228407392052961462010-05-26T14:35:36.521-04:002010-05-26T14:35:36.521-04:00Thanks for the link to the lecture - as someone ob...Thanks for the link to the lecture - as someone obsessed by concepts, Steiner's encouragement of a return to music, architecture, and mathematics was a timely reminder!<br /><br />But also a wonderful meditation on art. I particularly liked, "the desire to last is, at a central level, that of a very natural and often vulnerable artistic vanity. It is that of a link with a transcendent belief now no longer available. In this light, it is both uncertain and blinding. It is in the light of these changes that we must together try and redefine the word literacy, even though in only the most provisional, tentative way. Anything else would be arrogance."episquaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03271339073147503200noreply@blogger.com