The poetic genius of abstract thought," Steiner believes, "is lit, is made audible.
What voices the closing movements of Hegel\'s Phenomenology better than Edith Piaf\'s non de non , a twofold negation which Hegel would have prized? This essay is an attempt to listen more closely..
It is made ode.
Argument, even analytic, has its drumbeat.
The poetic genius of abstract thought," Steiner believes, "is lit, is made audible