Exile, Science and Bildung

Abstract

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. The "Other Germany" and the Question of Bildung: Weimar to Bonn -- 2. The Legacy of the George Circle -- 3. Walter Benjamin's "Secret Germany"--4. A Humanist Program in Exile: Thomas Mann in Philosophical Correspondence with His Contemporaries -- 5. The Empire's Watermark: Erich Kahler and Exile -- 6. An Exile's Career from Budapest through Weimar to Chicago: László Moholy-Nagy 7. Occult Encounters and "Structural Misunderstandings" in Exile: The surrealists and the Institut für Sozialforschung in the United States -- 8. The Davos Debate, Science, and the Violence of Interpretation: Panofsky, Heidegger, and Cassirer on the Politics of History -- 9. Paul Oskar Kristeller, Ernst Cassirer, and the "Humanistic Turn" in the American Emigration -- 10. "The Reparation of Dead Souls"--Siegfried Kracauer's Archimedean Exile-The Prophetic Journey from Death to Bildung -- 11. Horkheimer, Adorno, and the Significance of Anti-Semitism: The Exile Years 12. Not-Such-Odd Couples: Paul Lazarsfeld and the Horkheimer Circle on Morningside Heights -- 13. "Political Culturalism?" Adorno's "Entrance" in the Cultural Concert of West-German Postwar History -- Index TS - WorldCat T4 - The Contested Legacies of German Intellectual Figures M4 - Citavi