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German Scholars in Exiledeals with intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany and found refuge in either the United States or in American Services in Great Britain and post-WWII Germany. The volume focuses on scholars who were outside the commonly known Max Horkheimer-Hannah Arendt circles, who are less well-known but not less important. Their experiences ranged from an outstanding career at an Ivy-League university to a return to the German Democratic Republic and a position as an economic advisor to East Berlin's party leadership. None had actual political power, but many asserted some degree of influence. Their intellecutal legacies can still be seen in today's political culture.

Table of Contents

1 Preface
2 Werner Jaeger and Robert Ulich: Two Émigré Scholars on Educational Theory
3 Karl Loewenstein: From Public Law to Political Science
4 Hans Rothfels and the Paradoxes of Cosmopolitan Conservatism
5 Woman, Refugee, Historian: The Life and Career of Helene Wieruszowski
6 Between Communism and Anti-Communism: Franz Borkenau
7 Franz L. Neumann's Place in the History of Political Thought: A Sketch
8 Jürgen Kuczynski: A German-Jewish Marxist Scholar in Exile
9 Mentor and Comrade: Henry Pachter
10 Between History and Futurology: Ossip K. Flechtheim
11 Refugee Historians from Nazi Germany: Political Attitudes towards Democracy
12 Acknowledgements
13 List of Contributors

Product details

Published May 26 2011
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 260
ISBN 9798216347590
Imprint Lexington Books
Series Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

AF
Anthology Editor

Axel Fair-Schulz

MK
Anthology Editor

Mario Kessler

DB
Contributor

Devan Barker

SB
Contributor

Stephen Eric Bronner

CE
Contributor

Catherine A. Epstein

AG
Contributor

Anja-Silvia Goeing

JH
Contributor

John L. Harvey

GI
Contributor

Georg G. Iggers

ML
Contributor

Markus Lang

AS
Contributor

Alfons Söllner

Reviews

  • German Scholars in Exile: New Studies in Intellectual History is a diverse collection of intellectual biographies of not-soon-to-be-forgotten scholars. The volume is both a grim testament to the intellectual upheavals resulting from fascist oppression and the violence of war as well as a celebration of the tenacity and determination of those exiled by war to develop innovative and lasting contributions to academia. A fascinating and valuable collection of essays.

    Alexandra E. Hui, Mississippi State University

  • This collection of essays profiles ten exiled German and Austrian intellectuals who, the editors claim, are “less well-known but not less important figures” (ix) than contemporaries such as Hannah Arendt or Max Horkheimer. The book complements and expands upon the analyses in David Kettler and Gerhard Lauer’s edited volume Exile, Science, and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Émigré Intellectuals (New York, 2005). The essays vary in length and depth, ranging from brief sketches to lengthier analyses.

    German Studies Review

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