Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Study of Intellectual Exile: A Paradigm
- 2 Self-Knowledge and Sociology: Nina Rubinstein's Exile Studies
- 3 A German Subject to Recall: Hans Mayer as Internationalist, Cosmopolitan, Outsider, and/or Exile
- 4 Exile as Process: The Case of Franz L. Neumann
- 5 The Symbolic Uses of Exile: Erich Kahler at Ohio State
- 6 First Letters: The Liquidation of Exile?
- 7 The Second Wave: An Autobiographical Exercise
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
1 - The Study of Intellectual Exile: A Paradigm
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Study of Intellectual Exile: A Paradigm
- 2 Self-Knowledge and Sociology: Nina Rubinstein's Exile Studies
- 3 A German Subject to Recall: Hans Mayer as Internationalist, Cosmopolitan, Outsider, and/or Exile
- 4 Exile as Process: The Case of Franz L. Neumann
- 5 The Symbolic Uses of Exile: Erich Kahler at Ohio State
- 6 First Letters: The Liquidation of Exile?
- 7 The Second Wave: An Autobiographical Exercise
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This is a book about exile. It is also a book about some figures within a cohort of individuals in a particular time and place to whom the term exile has been variously applied—persons active in one or another sphere of public space who were displaced by Nazi rule in Germany between 1933 and 1945—and whose historical experiences and achievements have been found sufficiently important to serve as a point of departure for an interdisciplinary field of studies. While there can be no prohibition against simply postulating a plausible definition of exile as a preliminary to biographical, historical, or critical studies of the individuals or groups subsequently classed under that dramatic label, as is often done in exile studies, such a proceeding entails costs. Exile has a rich and contested history as a concept in political, literary, and religious reflection—a history that enters as well into the recognition of self and others among those involved in the instances under study. The aim of the present study is to take some chapters in the historical inquiry into the 1930s exile as the locus for an investigation of the phenomena and issues at stake in the contested uses of exile in social inquiry.
The Concept of Exile
What work does the term exile do in the contemporary language of cultural and political self-reflection, so that interpreters find it worthwhile to quarrel about its scope and application? Well, exiles in that context are always special.
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- The Liquidation of ExileStudies in the Intellectual Emigration of the 1930s, pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2011