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"Escape to Life": German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933

"Escape to Life": German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933


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After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. This compendium, adopting the title of a 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 intoEnglish 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 angleand aspect deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual’s work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, himself a German exile,produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced together in this book for the first time.

Table of Contents:
Theodor W. Adorno (Birgit Erdle, Jacques Lezra); Hannah Arendt (Sigrid Weigel, Liliane Weissberg); Erich Auerbach (Emily Apter, Karlheinz Barck); Walter Benjamin (Vivian Liska); Charlotte Berath (Kevin Vennemann); Ernst Bloch (Falko Schmieder); Bertolt Brecht (Robert Cohen); Hermann Broch (Daniel Weidner); Max Horkheimer (Eckart Goebel); Uwe Johnson (Michael Jennings); Ernst Kantorowicz (Paul Fleming); Siegfried Kracauer (Tony Kaes); Karl Lowith (Rodolphe Gasche); Erika Mann (Jonathan Kassner); Heinrich Mann (Slavoj Zizek); Klaus Mann (Nicola Behrmann); Thomas Mann (Anne-Kathrin Reulecke); Herbert Marcuse (Elke Siegel); Soma Morgenstern (Paul North); Erwin Panofsky (Andreas Beyer); Wilhelm Reich (John T. Hamilton); Fred Stein (Peter Stein); Jacob Taubes (Martin Treml); Ernst Toller (Thomas Stachel); Villem Flusser (Chadwick Smith).

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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783112204160
  • Publisher: De Gruyter
  • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 553
  • Sub Title: German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933
  • ISBN-10: 3112204166
  • Publisher Date: 29 May 2012
  • Binding: SA
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 155 mm


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