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The Forty-Nine Steps by Roberto Calasso; John Shepley is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Forty-Nine Steps about?

""Forty-nine steps" refers to the Talmudic doctrine that there are forty-nine steps to meaning in every passage of the Torah. Employing this interpretive approach, Calasso offers a "secret history" of European literature and philosophy in the wake of Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud. Calasso analyzes how figures ranging from Gustav Flaubert, Gottfried Benn, Karl Kraus, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, and Theodor Adorno has contributed to, or been emblematic of, the curr

Author

Roberto Calasso; John Shepley

Publisher

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816630981

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13