George Steiner and post-modern dialectic as improv (Jan 1, 2015) · 4:46am Jan 2nd, 2015
Post-modernists "mean" what they say
George Steiner is a literary theorist who has had appointments at Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Geneva, despite not believing in literary theory. While reading his 1989 book Real Presences, I suddenly understood how post-modern thought works, and why it is self-consistent. All you have to do to understand it, it turns out, is believe that they mean what they say [1].