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.

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Yes, you can access Exile, Science and Bildung by D. Kettler, G. Lauer, D. Kettler,G. Lauer, D. Kettler, G. Lauer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2016

ISBN

9781137045966

Topic

History

Subtopic

European History

Index

History

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