The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940
Synopsis
Benjamin and Adorno formed a uniquely powerful pair. Benjamin, riddle-like in his personality and given to tactical evasion, and Adorno, full of his own importance, alternately support and compete with each other throughout the correspondence, until its imminent tragic end becomes apparent to both writers. Each had met his match, and happily, in the other. This book is the story of an elective affinity. Adorno was the only person who managed to sustain an intimate intellectual relationship with Benjamin for nearly twenty years. No one else, not even Gershom Scholem, coaxed so much out of Benjamin.
- Copyright:
- 1999 Polity Press
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780674006898
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 2015-09-30T17:41:47Z
- Language:
- English
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- This is a copyrighted book.