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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461579903321

Autore

Kettler David

Titolo

The liquidation of exile : studies in the intellectual emigration of the 1930s / / David Kettler [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-37698-9

9786613376985

0-85728-422-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Key Issues in Modern Sociology

Disciplina

304.80943/09043

Soggetti

Germans - Foreign countries - History - 20th century

Exiles - Germany - History - 20th century

Intellectuals - Germany - History - 20th century

Political refugees - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany Emigration and immigration History 20th century

Germany Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The study of intellectual exile: a paradigm -- Self-knowledge and sociology: Nina Rubinstein's exile studies -- A German subject to recall: Hans Mayer as internationalist, cosmopolitan, outsider and/or exile -- Exile as process: the case of Franz L. Neumann -- The symbolic uses of exile: Erich Kahler at Ohio State -- First letters: the liquidation of exile? -- The second wave: an autobiographical exercise.

Sommario/riassunto

A theoretical overview and six case studies showing that the exile of intellectuals is a difficult, dependent, and fluid condition, whose achievements are dearly bought and whose endings rarely fulfill the missions informing their beginnings.