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

ISBN-13: 9783110332063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 562 str.

Eckart Goebel; Sigrid Weigel

Opis

This compendium explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on exiled German and German-Jewish intellectuals after 1933. It addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals thinking when it was translated into English and addressed to an American audience. "

Spis treści

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 Löwith (Rodolphe Gasché)
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)
Villèm Flusser (Chadwick Smith)

O autorze

Eckart Goebel, New York University, USA; Sigrid Weigel, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.