The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan, Hardcover/George Steiner

"The poetic genius of abstract thought," Steiner believes, "is lit, is made audible. Argument, even analytic, has its drumbeat. It is made ode. 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."