Four Jews on Parnassus : a conversation : Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg /

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Author / Creator:	Djerassi, Carl.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 203 pages) : illustrations (some color), music
Language:	English
Subject:	Benjamin, Walter, -- 1892-1940 -- Drama. Adorno, Theodor W., -- 1903-1969 -- Drama. Scholem, Gershom, -- 1897-1982 -- Drama. Schoenberg, Arnold, -- 1874-1951 -- Drama. Adorno, Theodor W., -- 1903-1969. Benjamin, Walter, -- 1892-1940. Schoenberg, Arnold, -- 1874-1951. Scholem, Gershom, -- 1897-1982. Jewish philosophy -- Germany -- Drama. Imaginary conversations. Imaginary conversations. Jewish philosophy. Parnassus, Mount (Greece) -- Drama. Germany. Greece -- Mount Parnassus. Electronic books. Drama.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11149852

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Other authors / contributors:	Seethaler, Gabriele.
ISBN:	9780231518307 0231518307 1322529531 9781322529530 023114654X 9780231146548 9780231146548
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English.
Summary:	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 Schönberg converted to Protestantism for professional reasons but later returned to Judaism. Carl Djerassi, himself a refugee from Hitler's Austria, dramatizes a dialogue between these four men in which they discuss fraternity, religious identity, and legacy as well as reveal aspects of their lives-notably their relations with their wives-that many have ignored, underemphasized, or misrepresented. The desi.
Other form:	Print version: Djerassi, Carl. Four Jews on Parnassus. New York : Columbia University Press, 2008
Publisher's no.:	EB00639834 Recorded Books

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