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020 _a9781590170328
082 _a838.91209
_bSCH
100 _aScholem, Gershom
245 _aWalter Benjamin : the story of a friendship
260 _bNew York Review Books,
_c2003
_aNew York :
300 _axvii, 302 p. ;
_bill.,
_c21 cm
365 _b19.95
_cUSD
_d81.20
490 _aNew York Review Books classics
504 _aIncludes index.
520 _aGershom 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.
650 _aFriends and relationships
650 _aFriends and associates
650 _aWalter Benjamin
650 _aBiography
650 _a Judaism
650 _a Marxism
650 _aKabbalah
700 _aZohn, Harry
_etr.
942 _2ddc
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