Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-107-16646-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Hans Baron, Karl Popper, Leo Strauss and Erich Auerbach were among the many German-speaking Jewish intellectuals who fled Continental Europe with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. Their scholarship, though not normally considered together, is studied here to demonstrate how, despite their different disciplines and distinctive modes of working, they responded polemically in the guise of traditional scholarship to their shared trauma. For each, the political calamity of European fascism was a profound intellectual crisis, requiring an intellectual response which Weinstein and Zakai now contextualize, ideologically and politically. They exemplify just how extensively, and sometimes how subtly, 1930s and 1940s scholarship was used not only to explain, but to fight the political evils that had infected modernity, victimizing so many. An original perspective on a popular area of research, this book draws upon a mass of secondary literature to provide an innovative and valuable contribution to twentieth-century intellectual history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinstein, David

Zakai, Avihu

Zakhai, Avihu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Hans Baron: humanism and Republican liberty in an age of tyranny; 2. Karl Popper: critical interpretation as fighting fascism; 3. Leo Strauss as Talmud in the wrong place; 4. Erich Auerbach and the crisis of German philology.

Über Autor(innen)

Zakai, Avihu
Avihu Zakai is Emeritus Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His previous publications include History and Apocalypse: Religion and Historical Consciousness in Early Modern History in Europe and America (2008), Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning (2010), and Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology: An Apologia for the Western Judaeo-Christian Humanist Tradition in an Age of Peril, Tyranny, and Barbarism (2015).

Weinstein, David
David Weinstein is Emeritus Professor at Wake Forest University, North Carolina and Honorarprofessur für Ideenhistoriker at Carl V. Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. His previous publications include Equal Freedom and Utility (Cambridge, 1998), The New Liberalism (with Avital Simhony, Cambridge, 2001) and Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism (Cambridge, 2007).