[PDF.75sk] Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem

Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem

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 | #1843298 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1991-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .69 x6.23 x9.28l, | File type: PDF | 131 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| German-Jewish Modernism|By chainlink|This is a rather low-key, patient kind of work, rather than one given to grandiose pronouncements (of the kind that Benjamin himself is sometimes wont to make); still, the effect of it builds as it goes, and Alter's project gains sharper contours with each chapter, and the short book ends up leaving a strong impression in the memory and a ge|About the Author|Robert Alter is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous critical works, the most recent of which is the prize-winning book The Art of Biblical Narrative.

In four elegant chapters, Robert Alter explains the prismlike radiance created by the association of three modern masters, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem. The volume pinpoints the intersections of these divergent witnesses to the modern condition of doubt, the no-man's-land between traditional religion and modern secular culture.

Scholem, the devoted Zionist and master historian of Jewish mysticism, and Benjamin, the Marxist cultural critic...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem   |  Robert Alter. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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