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Language: English
Published by De Gruyter, 2012
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562 pp. Preserved lik new. - Contents: Eckart Goebel/Sigrid Weigel: Introduction -- Birgit R. Erdle: "Sticking to our language" / "an unserer Sprache festhalten:" ADORNO in NYC -- Jacques Lezra: ADORNO'S Monsters -- Sigrid Weigel: Sounding Through - Poetic Difference - Self-Translation: Hannah ARENDT'S Thoughts and Writings Between Different Languages, Cultures, and Fields -- Liliane Weissberg: From Konigsberg to Little Rock: Hannah ARENDT and the Concept of Childhood -- Karlheinz Barck: Erich AUERBACH'S Second Exile -- Vivian Liska: Walter BENJAMIN'S Farewell to Europe -- Falko Schmieder: No Place Yet: Ernst BLOCH'S Utopia in Exile -- Robert Cohen: Bertolt BRECHT, Joseph Losey, and Brechtian Cinema -- Daniel Weidner: "Without knowing America, you cannot say anything valid about democratic politics." Hermann BROCH and the Ethics of Exile -- Robert Stockhammer: "Lesen Sie before the letter:" Oskar Maria GRAF in New York -- Eckart Goebel: Eclipse of Reason: Max HORKHEIMER'S New York Lectures, 1944 -- Michael W. Jennings: I'm not there: New York as Displaced Psychogeography in Uwe JOHNSON'S Jahrestage -- Paul Fleming: Bodies: Ernst H. KANTOROWICZ -- Anton Kaes: Siegfried KRACAUER: The Film Historian in Exile -- Stephan Braese: Identifying the Impulse: Alfred LION Founds the Blue Note Jazz Label -- Jerome Bolton: A Flaschenpost Recast: Leo LOWENTHAL'S Late Writings -- Rodolphe Gasche: On An Eastward Trajectory Toward Europe: Karl LOWITH'S Exiles -- Jonathan Kassner: Ethics of Imagination: On Erika MANN'S Works in Exile -- Nicola Behrmann: You Can't Go Home Again: Exiles in Klaus MANN'S The Volcano -- Anne-Kathrin Reulecke: Voyage with Don Quixote: Thomas MANN between European Culture and American Politics -- Elke Siegel: The Returns of Herbert MARCUSE -- Paul North: Exile is a Flop: Soma MORGENSTERN over Central Park -- Andreas Beyer: Stranger in Paradise: Erwin PANOFSKY'S Expulsion to the Academic Parnassus -- John T. Hamilton: The Flight Into Orgonomy: Wilhelm REICH in New York -- Martin Treml: Reinventing the Canonical: The Radical Thinking of Jacob TAUBES -- Thomas Stachel: "Almost American:" Ernst TOLLER Abroad -- Chadwick Smith: "Inter, but not national:" Vilem FLUSSER and the Technologies of Exile -- Dawn Freer: Fred STEIN (1909-1967): A Retrospective Fred Stein -- Portraits -- About the Authors. ISBN 9783110332063 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 832.…
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- Title
- "Escape to Life": German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933.
- Author
- Goebel, Eckart and Sigrid Weigel (eds.):
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Sehr gut
- Binding
- Paperback.
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 311033206X
- ISBN 13
- 9783110332063
- Edition
- First ed.
- Item weight
- 832 grams
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- Exil
After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. Stripped of their German citizenship by the Nazi-regime, these public figures either stayed in the New York area or moved on to California and other places. This compendium, adopting the title of a famous volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals’ thinking when it was translated into another language and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann family, S. Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky.
The authors of the essays in this compendium were free to choose the angle (biography, theory, politics) or aspect (a single work, a personal constellation) deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual’s work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, a German-Jewish refugee from Dresden, produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced in this book for the first time.
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About the Author
Eckart Goebel, New York University, USA; Sigrid Weigel, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
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