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Walter Benjamin

Pocket
Engelsk
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
  • Forfatter: Gershom Scholem
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 328
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9781590170328
  • Utgivelsesår: 2003
  • Bidragsyter: Scholem, Gershom
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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 spiri