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A masterly testament to the high vocation and perilous risks undertaken by true teacher and learner alike through a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy.
Hardback with Dustjacket. Tiny amount of notation in the margins in the first few pages, but does not obscure text. Otherwise, book is in really good condition with no creases to cover. Binding is tight and square. 
Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 198 p. Charles Eliot Norton Lectures; 2001-2002. Audience: General/trade. 
COLLECTIBLE! 1st Edition (Stated), 1st Printing 2005 Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA) Trade Paperback; text clean/UNMARKED; appears UNREAD; color cover surface near mint/edges smooth w/very light corner wear; spine strong + uncreased; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; Not book club; 198 pages + 10 preliminary pgs; introduction; text is 6 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered by Steiner at Harvard University in 2001-02; afterword; index; brief author biography; color front cover art is "Socrates Pulling Alcibiacles Away from Sensual Pleasures" by Jean Baptiste Regnault w/wrap-around design by Marianne Periak; "Steiner brings formidable charisma, unrivalled range of reference + powers to rhetoric to bear on the peaks (as well as some troughs) of pedagogy, in history + literature: Socrates + Alcibiades, parables of Christ, Faust, Virgil + Dante, Abelard + Eloise...Like his hero Socrates, Steiner professes to have few answers, but his? s sweep you along"--Robin Blake, Financial Times; gift quality collectible copy of 4-year-old paperback. 
General Nonfiction: A hardcover in excellent condition based on the Norton Lectures at Harvard delivered by Steiner in 2001-2. 
When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery, " with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a su... 
Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 208 p. Charles Eliot Norton Lectures; 2001-2002. 
pp. 198. Type of binding: Paperback Details: Discounted new copy. This book is located at our second store; please anticipate extra delivery time. 