The Fruits of Exile - Central European Intellectual Immigration to America in Age of

Informationen zum Autor Simon Lewis is a professor of world literature at the College of Charleston, where he is also an associate director of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program. Lewis is the author of White Women Writers and Their African Invention and editor of Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writings. Klappentext Fresh insights on an underexplored moment in intellectual history Zusammenfassung Focuses on the history of emigre thinkers escaping from the rise of fascism in Central Europe. This book emphasizes the contributions to American and British culture by the European intellectual diaspora of 1930s. It also explores the careers in exile of novelists Thomas Mann and Herman Broch; and philosophers Karl Mannheim and Walter Kaufmann.

Product details

• Authors: Richard (EDT)/ Lewis Bodek
• Assisted by: Richard Bodek (Editor), Simon Lewis (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9781570038532
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-853-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Carolina Lowcountry and the At; Carolina Lowcountry and the At
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous