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At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers

At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers

At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers

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Bad Friday

on Simone Weil

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Steiner describes Weil as the only notable female Western philosopher (Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt were great thinkers but not really philsophers). she was a Jew with (apparently) some internalized anti-Semitism. I don't know what the takeaway is. Maybe I should read her work? But Steiner hasn't really convinced me that it's worth reading.

Steiner, G. (2009). Bad Friday. In Steiner, G. At the New Yorker. New Directions, pp. 219-229

via dolorosa (en)

the way of grief

221

Thomas Nevin gives only a summary sketch of this via dolorosa.

—p.221 by George Steiner
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Thomas Nevin gives only a summary sketch of this via dolorosa.

—p.221 by George Steiner
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approbatory (en)

(noun) proof / (noun) an act of approving formally or officially / (noun) commendation, praise

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this young Jew of the French para-Marxist left came to make a series of approbatory comments on Hitler

—p.222 by George Steiner
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this young Jew of the French para-Marxist left came to make a series of approbatory comments on Hitler

—p.222 by George Steiner
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schlemiel (ji)

a stupid, awkward, or unlucky person

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She was also a transcendent schlemiel.

—p.229 by George Steiner
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She was also a transcendent schlemiel.

—p.229 by George Steiner
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