The Correspondence Of Walter Benjamin And Gershom Scholem 1932 1940

Author : Walter Benjamin,Gershom Scholem
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674174151

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The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940 by Walter Benjamin,Gershom Scholem Pdf

The legendary correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem bears indispensable witness to the inner lives of two remarkable and enigmatic personalities. Benjamin, acknowledged today as one of the leading literary and social critics of his day, was known during his lifetime by only a small circle of his friends and intellectual confreres. Scholem recognized the genius of his friend and mentor during their student days in Berlin, and the two began to correspond after Scholem's emigration to Palestine. Their impassioned exchange draws the reader into the very heart of their complex relationship during the anguished years from 1932 until Benjamin's death in 1940.

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226279572

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The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940 by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Called “the most important critic of his time” by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and meaning. A “natural and extraordinary talent for letter writing was one of the most captivating facets of his nature,” writes Gershom Scholem in his Foreword to this volume; and Benjamin's correspondence reveals the evolution of some of his most powerful ideas, while also offering an intimate picture of Benjamin himself and the times in which he lived. Writing at length to Scholem and Theodor Adorno, and exchanging letters with Rainer Maria Rilke, Hannah Arendt, Max Brod, and Bertolt Brecht, Benjamin elaborates on his ideas about metaphor and language. He reflects on literary figures from Kafka to Karl Kraus, and expounds his personal attitudes toward such subjects as Marxism and French national character. Providing an indispensable tool for any scholar wrestling with Benjamin’s work, The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910–1940 is a revelatory look at the man behind much of the twentieth century’s most significant criticism.

Author : Gershom Gerhard Scholem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:817092621

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The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem 1932-1940 by Gershom Gerhard Scholem Pdf

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:971002337

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The Friend of a Friend. [The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940. Book Review by George Steiner Pdf

Author : Gretel Adorno,Walter Benjamin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745694955

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Correspondence 1930-1940 by Gretel Adorno,Walter Benjamin Pdf

‘We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.’ So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his own life. The correspondence between Gretel Adorno and Walter Benjamin, published here in its complete form for the first time, is the document of a great friendship that existed independently of Benjamin’s relationship with Theodor W. Adorno. While Benjamin, alongside his everyday worries, writes especially about those projects on which he worked so intensively in the last years of his life, it was Gretel Karplus-Adorno who did everything in her power to keep Benjamin in the world. She urged him to emigrate to the USA and told him about Adorno’s plans and Bloch’s movements, thus maintaining the connection between the old Berlin friends and acquaintances. She helped him through the most difficult times with regular money transfers, and organized financial support from the Saar region, which was initially still independent from the Third Reich. Once in New York, she attempted to entice Benjamin to America with her descriptions of the city and the new arrivals from Europe – though ultimately to no avail.

Author : Gershom Gerhard Scholem
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000004001339

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Walter Benjamin by Gershom Gerhard Scholem Pdf

Author : Uwe Steiner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226772226

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Walter Benjamin by Uwe Steiner Pdf

Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) continues to fascinate and influence. Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the oeuvre of this intriguing theorist. Acknowledged only by a small circle of intellectuals during his lifetime, Benjamin is now a major figure whose work is essential to an understanding of modernity. Steiner traces the development of Benjamin’s thought chronologically through his writings on philosophy, literature, history, politics, the media, art, photography, cinema, technology, and theology. Walter Benjamin reveals the essential coherence of its subject’s thinking while also analyzing the controversial or puzzling facets of Benjamin’s work. That coherence, Steiner contends, can best be appreciated by placing Benjamin in his proper context as a member of the German philosophical tradition and a participant in contemporary intellectual debates. As Benjamin’s writing attracts more and more readers in the English-speaking world, Walter Benjamin will be a valuable guide to this fascinating body of work.

Author : Jack Jacobs,Jack Lester Jacobs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521513753

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The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism by Jack Jacobs,Jack Lester Jacobs Pdf

This book explores the ways in which the Jewish backgrounds of leading Frankfurt School Critical Theorists shaped their lives, work, and ideas.

Author : Hannah Arendt,Gershom Scholem
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226487618

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The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem by Hannah Arendt,Gershom Scholem Pdf

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of correspondence. Arendt and Scholem met in 1932 in Berlin and quickly bonded over their mutual admiration for and friendship with Walter Benjamin. They began exchanging letters in 1939, and their lively correspondence continued until 1963, when Scholem’s vehement disagreement with Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem led to a rupture that would last until Arendt’s death a dozen years later. The years of their friendship, however, yielded a remarkably rich bounty of letters: together, they try to come to terms with being both German and Jewish, the place and legacy of Germany before and after the Holocaust, the question of what it means to be Jewish in a post-Holocaust world, and more. Walter Benjamin is a constant presence, as his life and tragic death are emblematic of the very questions that preoccupied the pair. Like any collection of letters, however, the book also has its share of lighter moments: accounts of travels, gossipy dinner parties, and the quotidian details that make up life even in the shadow of war and loss. In a world that continues to struggle with questions of nationalism, identity, and difference, Arendt and Scholem remain crucial thinkers. This volume offers us a way to see them, and the development of their thought, anew.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno,Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674006895

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The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940 by Theodor W. Adorno,Walter Benjamin Pdf

The correspondence between Adorno and Walter Benjamin, which appears here for the first time in its entirety in English translation, must rank among the most significant to have come down to us from that notable age of barbarism, the 20th century. Each writer had met his match--happily--in the other. This book is the story of an elective affinity.

Author : Guy Stroumsa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047433767

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Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem, Correspondence 1945-1982 by Guy Stroumsa Pdf

The long and rich correspondence between the two leading historians of religions Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) and Morton Smith (1915-1991) provides important insights on their world and approach. In particular, it sheds new light upon Smith's discovery of Clement of Alexandria's letter on the Secret Gospel of Mark.

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784782047

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Walter Benjamin's Archive by Walter Benjamin Pdf

The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas, and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized, and analyzed by their author. In this way, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin's Archive leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.

Author : Graeme Gilloch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780745666662

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Walter Benjamin by Graeme Gilloch Pdf

The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines. This book provides a lucid introduction to Benjamin's oeuvre through a close and sensitive reading not only of his major studies, but also of some of his less familiar essays and fragments. Gilloch offers an original interpretation of, and fresh insights into, the continuities between Benjamin's always demanding and seemingly disparate texts. Gilloch's book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in social theory, literary theory, cultural and media studies and urban studies who are seeking a sophisticated yet readable overview of Benjamin's work. It will also prove rewarding reading for those already well-versed in Benjaminian thought.

Author : Gerhard Richter
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0814330835

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Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography by Gerhard Richter Pdf

Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography is not merely the most extensive and insightful treatment of Benjamin 's autobiographical writings.

Author : Esther Leslie
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781861896032

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Walter Benjamin by Esther Leslie Pdf

Drawing upon a wealth of journal writings and personal correspondence, Esther Leslie presents a uniquely intimate portrait of one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century, Walter Benjamin. She sets his life in the context of his middle-class upbringing; explores the social, political, and economic upheaval in Germany during and after World War I; and recounts Benjamin’s eccentric love of toys, trick-books, travel, and ships. From the Frankfurt School and his influential friendships with Theodore Adorno, Gershom Scholem, and Bertolt Brecht, to his travels across Europe, Walter Benjamin traces out the roots of Benjamin’s groundbreaking writings and their far-reaching impact in his own time. Leslie argues that Benjamin’s life challenges the stereotypical narrative of the tragic and lonely intellectual figure—instead positioning him as a man who relished the fierce combat of competing theories and ideas. Closing with his death at the Spanish-French border in a desperate flight from the Nazis and Stalin, Walter Benjamin is a concise and concentrated account of a capacious intellect trapped by hostile circumstances.