Four Jews on Parnassus-a Conversation : : Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg / / Carl Djerassi.

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 G...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:with music CD
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 118 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1. Four men
  • 2. Four wives
  • 3. One Angel (by Paul Klee)
  • 4. Four jews
  • 5. Benjamin's Grip
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Biographical sketches
  • Illustration Sources
  • Music for four jews on parnassus-a conversation by carl djerassi
  • Backmatter