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Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (New York Review Books Classics) by Scholem, Gershom; Sigel, Lee; Zohn, Harry is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 relationship—which was to remain crucial for both men—is both a celebration of his friend’s spellbinding genius and a lament for the pers
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Scholem, Gershom; Sigel, Lee; Zohn, Harry
- Publisher
- New York Review ; Signature Books Services
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781590175736
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4.01 / 5 (121 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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