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Exile, Science and Bildung

The Contested Legacies of German Intellectual Figures

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Editors:
  1. David Kettler

    1. Political Studies, Bard (Emeritus Trent University), USA

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  2. Gerhard Lauer

    1. University of Goettingen, Germany

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Part of the book series: Studies in European Culture and History (SECH)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    David Kettler

  • University of Goettingen, Germany

    Gerhard Lauer

About the editors

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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