Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich - Baron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach

A study of how forced exile from 1930s Germany informed the scholarship of four German-speaking, Jewish intellectuals.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).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).

Summary

Weinstein and Zakai contextualize, ideologically and politically, the works of Hans Baron, Karl Popper, Leo Strauss and Erich Auerbach, following their exile from 1930s Nazi Germany. They demonstrate how, despite their different disciplines and distinctive modes of working, they all responded passionately to their shared trauma.

Product details

• Authors: David Weinstein, David (Wake Forest University Weinstein, Weinstein David, Avihu Zakai, Avihu (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Zakai, Zakai Avihu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107166462
• ISBN: 978-1-107-16646-2
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; European History, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Western philosophy from c 1800, Literary theory, Political science and theory, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), History and Archaeology, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -