{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-isbn-9781590170328","title":"Walter Benjamin","description":"\u003cp\u003eGershom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once prickly and heartbroken, argumentative and loving, \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin: The  Story of a Friendship \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\"The force of this remarkable memoir derives as much from the insights  it offers into the mind and beliefs of the writer as into those of its  subject.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"Walter Benjamin [was]  perhaps the most subtle, intuitive, and creative critic of the  age....Since Scholem is himself a great scholar and thinker, since the  intellectual comradeship between the two was so intense for a long time,  the commingling of their thoughts comes to be even more revealing than  the life-facts themselves....An invaluable document about not merely one  but two of the century’s most profound minds.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGershom Scholem\u003c\/b\u003e (1897-1982) was born in Berlin, educated at the  universities of Jena and Bern, and emigrated to Palestine in 1923, where  he devoted himself to the study of the Jewish mystical tradition and  the Kabbala. One of the greatest scholars of the twentieth century,  admired both for his philological prowess and his philosophical insight,  Scholem was the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eMajor Trends in Jewish Mysticism, On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOn Jews and Judaism in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of autobiographical writings and essays on Zionism. \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondence of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGershom Scholem: A Life in Letters\u003c\/i\u003e were published posthumously. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLee Siegel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books, including \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce—and Why It Matters\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAre You Serious: How to Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly\u003c\/i\u003e.  He is also the author of the essay “Harvard Is Burning,” just published  as an e-book. He has written essays and reviews for many publications,  including \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2002, he received the National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303486214373,"sku":"NP9781590170328","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590170328.jpg?v=1767743576","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/walter-benjamin-isbn-9781590170328","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}