Exile, Science and Bildung

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. The “Other Germany” and the Question of Bildung: Weimar to Bonn

   • David Kettler, Gerhard Lauer

   Pages 1-18

3. The Legacy of the George Circle

   • Ernst Osterkamp

   Pages 19-26

4. Walter Benjamin’s “Secret Germany”

   • Irving Wohlfarth

   Pages 27-45

5. A Humanist Program in Exile: Thomas Mann in Philosophical Correspondence with his Contemporaries

   • Reinhard Mehring

   Pages 47-62

6. The Empire’s Watermark: Erich Kahler and Exile

   • Gerhard Lauer

   Pages 63-73

7. An Exile’s Career From Budapest Through Weimar to Chicago: László Moholy-Nagy

   • Anna Wessely

   Pages 75-100

8. Occult Encounters and “Structural Misunderstandings” in Exile: The Surrealists and the Institut Für Sozialforschung in the United States

   • Laurent Jeanpierre

   Pages 101-109

9. The Davos Debate, Science, and the Violence of Interpretation: Panofsky, Heidegger, and Cassirer on the Politics of History

   • Gregory B. Moynahan

   Pages 111-124

10. Paul Oskar Kristeller, Ernst Cassirer, and the “Humanistic Turn” in the American Emigration

    • Kay Schiller

    Pages 125-138

11. “The Reparation of Dead Souls” — Siegfried Kracauer’s Archimedean Exile — The Prophetic Journey from Death to Bildung

    • Jerry Zaslove

    Pages 139-155

12. Horkheimer, Adorno, and the Significance of Anti-Semitism: The Exile Years

    • Jack Jacobs

    Pages 157-168

13. Not-Such-Odd Couples: Paul Lazarsfeld and the Horkheimer Circle on Morningside Heights

    • Thomas Wheatland

    Pages 169-184

14. “Political Culturalism?” Adorno’s “Entrance” In the Cultural Concert of West-German Postwar History

    • Alfons Söllner

    Pages 185-200

15. Back Matter

    Pages 201-203

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The history of American universities is punctuated by shifts in the terms on which the mission of higher education is defined and debated. A dramatic moment with lasting effects came with the introduction of German-speaking exile intellectuals in the Hitler era. In Germany, the academic culture of the early twentieth century was torn by the struggle between Wissenschaft and Bildung, two symbolic German terms, whose lack of precise English equivalents is a sign of the different configuration in America. The studies in this book examine the achievements of numerous influential émigré intellectuals against the background of their mediation between the two cultural traditions in science and liberal studies. In showing the richness of reciprocal influences, the book challenges claims about the disruptive influence of exile culture on the American mind.

• 20. Jahrhundert
• 20th century
• Adolf Hitler
• culture
• education
• exile
• Germany
• history
• migration
• Tradition
• USA
• Weimar

• Political Studies, Bard (Emeritus Trent University), USA

  David Kettler

• University of Goettingen, Germany

  Gerhard Lauer

DAVID KETTLER was born in Leipzig and emigrated to the United States in 1940. He is Scholar in Residence at Bard College, USA and Professor Emeritus in Political Studies at Trent University, Canada. A political theorist by training, Kettler is author of several books on Karl Mannheim, most recently Karl Mannheim's Sociology as Political Education (2002: with Colin Loader), as well as studies dealing with Franz L. Neumann and other legal and political thinkers with careers in both Weimar Germany and exile, most recently collected as Social Regimes, Rule of Law, and Democratic Change (2001).

GERHARD LAUER is Professor of German at the University of Goettingen, Germany. He focuses his studies in early modern literary history, history of science, German-Jewish History and literary theory.

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