How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim.
- ISBN10 0300074719
- ISBN13 9780300074710
- Publish Date 18 December 1998 (first published September 1967)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 September 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 440
- Language English