Real Presences: An astonishing turn from George Steiner
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- I read to you from the amazing book in which Steiner affirms that meaning I’d given and underpinned by God
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The professor we all wish we had. Thanks for your generosity, Malcolm.
Thank you kindly
Found your channel several months ago , subbed . Really like your post
Welcome aboard!
I recently finished my first read-through of Steiner's "Real Presences" and was looking for comments of others; I just found yours here and wanted to thank you for what you highlighted. His biographical details and the 'After Babel' notes are helpful. "Real Presences" is a remarkable book which I already think I need to read a second time to properly digest.
Most of us are living in a long long Holy Saturday…
Rev. Guite, congrats on 10K subscribers! I'm so glad the Lord is using you to minister to so many people!
Just as when we were children, we were afraid to be alone in the dark and could only be assured by the presence of someone who loved us. Well this is exactly what happened on Holy Saturday, the voice of God resounded in the realm of death. The unimaginable occurred; namely, love penetrated Hell.
- Robert Cardinal Sarah
Thanks so much for the wonderful reading of Steiner. Cheers from the USA, Josh
Words do not describe the objects in our world; words are tools to dig our way through the world, and navigate around the objects in our world. Words are not cheap, they are, in fact, completely worthless. How can we explain the most important things in life, such as love and feelings, if we cannot even explain something as trivial as the colour yellow to a man born blind? ...................."All philosophy is a critique of language"- Ludwig Wittgenstein x
Thanks Malcolm. Thanks George. Thanks God.
Anon
If one could but pluck the musician from
the air
And leave the notes suspended there,
Abandoning cause of envy and despair,
As God had gone and hid behind the
stars;
If the player could disappear like that,
The listener might more easily hear
What the instrument was getting at.
Another great video. Thanks!
Congratulations in advance for 10000 subscribers.
In 2 years more 90k
Preach it! I guess, in faith, we can see the logos and the cosmos and the telos all speaking to us and through in transcendent affects. So we speak, we preach, we write, and we tell stories in hope and faith that words are more than just our present, cultural meanings. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
In the study of language, I had stopped at Wittgenstein, interesting to find Steiner. I am
Excited to explore his work
There is another great book called Empires of the Word
Thank you ,Malcolm for such a revelation ! For Steiner illuminating the meaning of Friday, Saturday and Sunday -cathedrals of Spirit !
Quite remarkable. Those several paragraphs are enough to change the course of one's life, if the soul is ready. Thank you! I'm going to get myself a copy of this book.
Another wonderful distraction. My heart jumps when I see a new video, as I know I will often escape into a world of peace, calm and new learning.
You are like Hermes, god of the crossroads and trickster and messenger, and one of the crossroads is Dylan's 'highway of diamonds with nobody on it" What kairos! Thank you.
Love Steiner’s book. And a great fan of Holy Saturday.
This is Timely! And Timely is a word that I've heard Steiner use lately in videos on RUclips that I've been watching. Only this week I discovered him and started watching videos of his lectures and specials on Dutch TV, BBC, Etc. The passionate and erudite man certainly, devoted to internationalism, polyglotism. Having done a bachelor's degree in college, and following this up with many years of obsessional reading and study on my own, I'm always disappointed that no public figures and no university figures, no academics, ever discuss my favorite modernists Blaise Cendrars and Henry Miller. But I guess it's better to keep them out of The Fray. After all Henry Miller precluded himself from discussions of literature by decrying "literature" at the beginning of his career in the first page of his first published book.
Such amazing and deep thought the author was involved in when creating these paragraphs you’ve read.
And amazing discernment and wisdom is the gift given you to share with us and help us understand them.
Thank you Reverend.
I think with compassion on atheists and realists, just as Aslan treats the dwarves in The Last Battle. The human mind has so much power, that it can will itself into disbelief, and sadly there is no cure.
Well, the cure is honesty and humility. And gods grace. The grace to put one in a position where they are sufficiently critical of their own mind, and sufficiently open to having their mind changed. These are two separate things that synergize well, with the right environment to support it. A loving and supportive environment. It also takes a willingness from those in that environment to abstain from judgement, of the right and wrong in the beliefs of others, for we do not know how god is working in this persons life, and how their disbelief serves their future wisdom. The seeming loss of truth, the deconstruction of meaning, the death of god, all serves god; the deconstruction of a paradigm is contingent upon meaning, because that which allows for meaning is the substrate upon which it is facilitated. All patterns are subordinate to The Pattern, right? Maybe you'll disagree, but at this time I don't think I could see it any other way.
@@BrandonMather8 this was the cause of a major schism among the Buddhist schools in China, ‘is everyone saveable?’. Jesus’ parable of the sower doesn’t give good odds for seeds.
And to think of Holy Saturday in the Episcopal Church traditionally having a Service of Baptism gives me Hope on the darkest of days !!!!!!! Wonderful !
I'm an Orthodox Christian from Balkans and it's so nice to find believers of any Christian church, I feel like I can relate to all of them
The turn gave me goose bumps and the ending tears
Saturday... that would be Our Lady's day. The silence, the solitude, I mean...
“extraordinary fellow”. …sounds like a superhero of sorts. This clip from a year ago showed up on my feed this evening. Serendipity, as my day has gone…a lovely nightcap after attempting to share the love of Christ to some broken people, (aren’t we all, a bit?). Thanks again, brother. My heart applauds.
@Malcolm Guite do you consider yourself philosemitic?
What a truly wonderful, civilised, intelligent place, to while away a few minutes. Thank you.
Reply, thank you for that. Mindbender, indeed. Also, comforting words for these days when the world seems to be in a long Satueday.
Meant to type Dear Malcom, ... NOT Reply,...
Well said!
Steiner was a very great man and I am sorry to hear of his death. I loved his way of speaking. He called a spade a spade if you listen carefully and his reference as a real presence is to evil, too. He strove courageously to remain vigilant and to call out the fascist, the sycophants and the Philistines. And the advertisers, the Ad-men who claim that a life can be leisurely with no work involved, no 'cost of living'? I love your homilies, Malcolm. Ta, muchly!
Just amazing final paragraphs from Steiner. I’m always intrigued by Holy Saturday…partly because I was born on that day. You will no doubt have read Alan Lewis’ great book… Between Cross and Resurrection.
I could not be more thrilled to have discovered this video. I first read Real Presences when it came out over thirty years ago, and am delighted to see Malcolm discussing it here.
I hope you have a wonderful time at Oxford. May the Lord bless you this week:)
The professor smokes some pretty costly pipes and tobacco, so he's not exactly a Hobbit.
Ephesians 3:18 keeps coming to my thoughts as I listen.
Wunderbar! thank you sir. I just wrote a sonnet for Saturn's day last Saturday. ; ) Enjoy
That was an interesting video, Malcolm.
Thank you for surveying the human condition and option for hope
This was amazing! Thank you for sharing it with us.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dreadfull is the day when we believe there are no more mysteries
Oh my goodness! Amazing passages! Thank you for highlighting Steiner and his work. I’m sure in academic circles, he is well known, but for one who has only ever dipped his toes in the pool as career, time, and finances have demanded, I had never heard of him. So much wonder and “very good” world out there. Cheers!
You are welcome!
I enjoyed this excerpt dissection of yours in particular, made my brain really see things a way I never thought to before. I really appreciate your little videos, thank you so much for making them Mr. Guite
Glad it was helpful!
A hero christian for our time.
The final lines echo in some corridor of my mind a bit of T S Eliott in passages from the Four Quartets
yes indeed
youre an og
Thanks Malcome for introducing me to yet to another remarkable author! I praise you, do keep up with your never-ending enthusiasm of literate vitality! You are absolutely brilliant, l bow before you...
you are most kind
Utterly beautiful.
Wow.
well done, well said.