Walter Benjamin

Histoire d'une Amitie

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Walter Benjamin

Histoire d'une Amitie

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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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Walter Benjamin: Histoire d'une Amitie
2022, Societe d'edition Les Belles lettres
in French
Cover of: Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin: the story of a friendship
1981, Jewish Publication Society of America
in English - 1st English ed.

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270

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OL38956608M
ISBN 13
9782251453453

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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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