{"product_id":"9781590170328","title":"Walter Benjamin","description":"By: Gershom Scholem     \u003chr\u003e\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","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46778854703331,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781590170328","price":128.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781590170328.jpg?v=1751663745","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/9781590170328","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}