Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin
Gershon Scholem, Roger Errera, ...
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Walter Benjamin

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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 genius and a lament for the personal and intellectual self-destructiveness that culminated in Benjamin's suicide in 1940." "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."--Jacket.

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Language
English
Pages
24

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Cover of: Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin: the story of a friendship
1981, Jewish Publication Society of America
in English - 1st English ed.
Cover of: Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
1965, Leo Baeck Institute
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
The Leo Baeck memorial lecture -- 8

Classifications

Library of Congress
PN75 B44 S3

The Physical Object

Pagination
24p.
Number of pages
24

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL20733105M

First Sentence

"BEFORE I made Walter Benjamin's personal acquaintance, I saw him in the autumn of 1913 at a meeting that took place in a hall above the Cafe Tiergarten in Berlin."

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