• Obituary: The professor, philosopher and literary critic George Steiner dies at 90
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I have gone down to write this obituary to the terrace of the Petit Café, in the Plaza de Ocata. At the bottom of the street Pintor Miquel Villá is the Mediterranean. At this time the light of noon starts sparkling reflections stormed to its surface. Culture is this: the attempt to fight with words the silence of being . It is important to remember him in the death of Steiner, a lagging humanist, because today, at the gates of posthumanism, we feel more in need than ever of words.

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