Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (New York Review Books Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590170326 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-30 |
| Language | : | German |
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A haunting tale of an intellectually daring man, written by another T. M. Teale There are few accounts of 20th-century intellectual history that are as compelling as this. Under Gershom (a.k.a. Gerhard) Scholem's comprehensive and compassionate gaze, Benjamin emerges as a troubled and daring intellect--and human, very human. I first heard about Walter Benjamin in graduate school when everyone was reading "The Work of Art in the Age of Me. A great intellectual friendship and a tragic end This is the story of a friendship between two of the most remarkable intellectual figures of the twentieth century , Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin. It begins in Berlin in 191A great intellectual friendship and a tragic end Shalom Freedman This is the story of a friendship between two of the most remarkable intellectual figures of the twentieth century , Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin. It begins in Berlin in 1914 and continues through their separation until Benjamin's tragic death twenty -five years later. Both of them were greatly interested in the historical processes of their times, in . and continues through their separation until Benjamin's tragic death twenty -five years later. Both of them were greatly interested in the historical processes of their times, in
Language Notes Text: English, German (translation)
He is the translator of "Max Weber: A Biography "written by Marianne Weber and recently reissued by Transaction Publishers. He is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. Harry Zohn is professor of German language and literature at Brandeis University. Lee Siegel writes about culture and politics for a wide variety
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.. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his close friend and intellectual mentor. 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. 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