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Metaphysics of the profane : the political theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem / Eric Jacobson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobson, Eric, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Benjamin, Walter.
- Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982.
- Scholem, Gershom.
- Judaism and politics.
- Messiah--Judaism.
- Messiah.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Justice (Jewish theology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most famous and influential Jewish thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, and their late work is well-known. The importance of the intense intellectual partnership they forged in the years between the First World War and 1923, however, is less appreciated and understood. This is the first book to make the works of this untranslated and unpublished early period -- including Benjamin's and Scholem's ideas on messianism, language, divine justice, and the quest for a philosophy of Judaism -- accessible to a wider audien
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Messianism
- pt. 2. On the origins of language and the true names of things
- pt. 3. Justice and redemption.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613627766
- 9781280597930
- 1280597933
- 9780231501538
- 0231501536
- OCLC:
- 827481456
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