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.
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.
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (New York Review Books Classics)
328Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (New York Review Books Classics)
328Paperback(Reprint)
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781590170328 |
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Publisher: | New York Review Books |
Publication date: | 04/30/2003 |
Series: | NYRB Classics Series |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 328 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.85(d) |