Walter Benjamin. The Story of a Friendship

ISBN: 9781590170328 Categorii: Diverse. An apariție: 2003 Autor: Gershom Scholem Editură: New York Review Books Tip copertă: Paperback Număr pagini: 328 Stoc: Stoc limitat

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Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century's most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his close friend and intellectual mentor. His account of that relationship-which was to remain crucial for both men-is both a celebration of his friend's spellbinding genius and a lament for the personal and intellectual self-destructiveness that culminated in Benjamin's suicide in 1940.

At once prickly and heartbroken, argumentative and loving, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship is an absorbing memoir with the complication of character and motive of a novel. As Scholem revisits the passionate engagements over Marxism and Kabbala, Europe and Palestine that he shared with Benjamin, it is as if he sought to summon up his lost friend's spirit again, to have the last word in the argument that might have saved his life.

Limba
Engleza
Autor
Gershom Scholem
Data Publicarii
2003
Editura
New York Review Books
Latime
12.7
Inaltime
20.3
Greutate
400
Tip Coperta
Paperback
Nr Pag
328
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