Necessary Angels

by Robert Alter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674606639
• ISBN13: 9780674606630
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"