Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography

by Amir Engel

Book Overview

Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022668332X
• ISBN13: 9780226683324
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"