Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship by Scholem, Gershom - 1988-11-23

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1988. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Schocken, 1988-11-23. Paperback. Very Good. 0.7874 8.1890 5.5118.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Schocken, November 1988. Paper Back. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket has some edgewear and chips along edges.

Schocken, November 1988. Paper Back. Very Good. unmarked copy

Schocken, 1988. Soft Cover. Good. Reasonable and presentable paperback. Some shelf wear to the covers. Good binding and the text flows clearly. Enjoy this reliable edition.

Schocken. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Paperback. 0805208704 . 264 pages; 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 relationshipÑwhich was to remain crucial for both menÑis 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.<br><br>At once prickly and heartbroken, argumentative and loving, <i>Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship </i>is an absorbing memoir with the complication of character and motive of a novel. As Scholem revisits the passionate engagements over Marxism and… Read More

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