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Walter Benjamin (Paperback, Main)
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Walter Benjamin (Paperback, Main)
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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
relationshipNwhich was to remain crucial for both menNis 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.
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