Walter Benjamin : the story of a friendship
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Walter Benjamin : the story of a friendship
（New York review books classics）（A New York review book）
New York Review of Books, c2001
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Walter Benjamin : die Geschichte einer Freudschaft
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Translation of: Walter Benjamin : die Geschichte einer Freudschaft
Includes index
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Gershom Scholem was a precocious teenager when he became Walter Benjamin's close friend. His account of that relationship - crucial for both men until Benjamin's suicide in 1940 - is at once a tribute to his friend's genius and a lament for his personal and, as Scholem sees it, intellectual self-destructiveness. Prickly but also poignant, this book revisits passionate engagements with Marxism and the Kabbalah, Germany and Palestine, as if Scholem sought to summon up his friend's spirit, to have the last word in the argument that might have saved his life.
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