Four Jews on Parnassus--A Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg [With CD]

by Carl Djerassi

Book Overview

This book features a CD of rarely performed music, including a specially commissioned rap by Erik Weiner of Walter Benjamin's "Thesis on the Philosophy of History."

Theodor W. Adorno was the prototypical German Jewish non-Jew, Walter Benjamin vacillated between German Jew and Jewish German, Gershom Scholem was a committed Zionist, and Arnold Sch nberg converted to Protestantism for professional reasons but later returned to Judaism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023114654X
• ISBN13: 9780231146548
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher