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Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship

by Lee Siegel (Introduction), Gershom Scholem
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Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship

Intimate memoir of intellectual companionship and tragedy

If you're fascinated by the melding of great minds against the backdrop of historical turmoil, you'll find "Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship" a poignant exploration of two intellectual giants. Scholem's narrative is both a homage to his friend and a reflection on the ideologies that shaped a generation. His personal insights into Benjamin's life and thought will immerse you in a world where philosophy and friendship intertwine with the dramatic events of the early 20th century.

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Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship

by Lee Siegel (Introduction), Gershom Scholem
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ISBN: 9781590170328
Authors: Lee Siegel (Introduction), Gershom Scholem
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Date of Publication: 2003-04-28
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Philosophy, Biographies & Memoirs, Religion, History
Related Topics: History, Memoir, Biography, Biography Memoir, History
Goodreads rating: 3.96
(rated by 249 readers)

Description

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 spirit again, to have the last word in the argument that might have saved his life.
 

Intimate memoir of intellectual companionship and tragedy

If you're fascinated by the melding of great minds against the backdrop of historical turmoil, you'll find "Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship" a poignant exploration of two intellectual giants. Scholem's narrative is both a homage to his friend and a reflection on the ideologies that shaped a generation. His personal insights into Benjamin's life and thought will immerse you in a world where philosophy and friendship intertwine with the dramatic events of the early 20th century.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.