George Steiner (1929–2020)
The End of an Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22260651 |
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| Authors | D Robinson (0000-0002-3222-6122, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Yearbook of Translational Hermeneutics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2748-8160 • E-ISSN: 2748-8160 |
| Publisher | Leipzig University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.52116/yth.vi1.28 |
| OpenAlex | W3208549524 |
| Language | EN |
There are, I suppose, always signs around us that an era is ending, that another one is beginning, and so on-that there is some kind of meaningful discontinuity to the transitions that we are always experiencing. We are inveterate narrativizers of our lives and times. That impulse is the stimulus that produces not only historiography and arguably all other intellectual labor as well but the "I" itself, the narrating self. We "are" (i. e., seem to ourselves and others like) "coherent" selves because we so obsessively turn our moment-tomoment experiences into stories with beginnings, middles, and ends
Computer Science · Digital Education and Society · History · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Socio-political and Technological Issues · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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