New Haven: Yale University Press, (1971). Collects four lectures from the T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures - C.P. Snow commented that Steiner "presents us with a dark prospect for our culture. But his own existence is a proof that the culture has not altogether crumbled or split. His own existence is a cultural phenomenon in which we can take a decent pride." 141 pp. ISBN: 0-300017103.