German Scholars in Exile
Title | German Scholars in Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Axel Fair-Schulz |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 2011-05-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0739150480 |
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.
The Frankfurt School in Exile
Title | The Frankfurt School in Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Wheatland |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 441 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816653674 |
Thomas Wheatland examines the influence of the Frankfurt School, or Horkheimer Circle, and how they influenced American social thought and postwar German sociology. He argues that, contrary to accepted belief, the members of the group, who fled oppression in Nazi Germany in 1934, had a major influence on postwar intellectual life.
Scholars in Exile
Title | Scholars in Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Nadia Zavorotna |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1487504454 |
This book provides a comprehensive account of the Ukrainian émigré scholarly life in Czechoslovakia between the world wars.
Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile
Title | Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Egbert Krispyn |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 218 |
Release | 2010-03-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0820334901 |
In contrast to the sometimes overly generous treatment of German writers forced into exile by Hitler's fascist regime, Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile applies the strict aesthetic and historical standards of literary criticism, putting aside any special pleading for their anti-Nazi political views. This critical approach leads to two important conclusions: that the emigrant writers' sacrifices and opposition to Hitler's Germany, however courageous, were ultimately futile and that the literature they produced was largely an aesthetic failure, due in part to the very nature of the exile experience. Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile includes a brief description of literary life in the Third Reich, but then concentrates on the United States as the scene of the exile's greatest activity after the outbreak of World War II. Krispyn concludes that the exiles' failure to achieve their political and artistic aims constitutes an important political case history within the larger history of Nazi Germany. Artistic and intellectual activities seem powerless to oppose terror, and the turn of the creative mind to political ends seemingly undermines the aesthetic force of creation.
Empire of Law
Title | Empire of Law PDF eBook |
Author | Kaius Tuori |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 331 |
Release | 2020-04-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108483631 |
The history of exiles from Nazi Germany and the creation of the notion of a shared European legal tradition.
Exiled in Paradise
Title | Exiled in Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Heilbut |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 541 |
Release | 2024-07-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520377605 |
A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars—ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Lang—who fled Hitler's Germany and how they changed the very fabric of American culture. In a new postscript, Heilbut draws attention to the recent changes in reputation and image that have shaped the reception of the German exiles. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983 with a paperback in 1997.
Flight of Fantasy
Title | Flight of Fantasy PDF eBook |
Author | Neil H. Donahue |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781571810021 |
After the end of Nazi era, many German writers claimed to have retreated into "Inner Emigration". This book presents the complexity of Inner Emigration through the analysis of individual cases of writers who, under constant pressure from a watchful dictatorship to conform and to collaborate, were caught between conscience and compromise.