First Letters After Exile by Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Ernst Bloch, and Others (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kettler, David; Garz, Detlef

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the study of the National Socialist State and its aftermath, two unusual aspects continue to occupy historians and social science commentators. First, a factor important enough to enter into the very definition of totalitarianism is the thoroughgoing mobilization, coercive if needed, of the population of writers, teachers, professors journalists and other intellectual workers, securing cooperation - or at the least passive concurrence - in the mass-inculcation of the population in the destructive Fascist ideology. Second is the central place of dissident members of these populations in the exile. Since webs of communications with others, the majority of whom had remained in Germany, had constituted their own memberships in the populations at issue, the question of their roles in the post-war era depended importantly on the ways and means by which they restored - or refused to restore - communications with those who had remained.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785276736
• Artikelnr.: 61274292

Autorenporträt

David Kettler is a student of social and political theory with a special interest in the intellectual generation at work in Germany between the wars and in exile. He is Professor Emeritus of both Trent University (Canada) and Bard College (USA). Detlef Garz is interested in social and educational theory and qualitative research with a focus on biographical development in Nazi Germany and beyond.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Chapter 1. The "First Letters" Exile Project: Introduction, David
Kettler; Chapter 2. "That I Will Return, My Friend, You Do Not Believe
Yourself ": Karl Wolfskehl - Exul Poeta, Detlef Garz; Chapter 3. "I Do Not
Lift a Stone": Thomas Mann's "First Letter" to Walter von Molo, Leonore
Krenzlin; Chapter 4. Faust Narrative and Impossibility Thesis: Thomas
Mann's Answer to Walter von Molo, Reinhard Mehring; Chapter 5. "That I Am
Not Allowed for a Moment to Forget the Ocean of Blood": Hans-Georg Gadamer
and Leo Strauss in Their First Letters after 1946, Thomas Meyer; Chapter 6.
Return into Exile: First Letters to and from Ernst Bloch, Moritz Mutter and
Falko Schmieder; Chapter 7. A Postwar Encounter without Pathos: Otto
Kirchheimer's Critical Response to the New Germany, Peter Breiner; Chapter
8. An Exile's Letter to Old Comrades in Cologne: Wilhelm Sollmann's
Critique of German Social Democracy and Conception of a New Party in
Postwar Germany, Marjorie Lamberti; Chapter 9. First Letters: Arendt to
Heidegger, Micha Brumlik; Chapter 10. Denazification and Postwar German
Philosophy: The Marcuse/Heidegger Correspondence, Thomas Wheatland; Chapter
11. "It Would Be Perhaps a New Exile and Perhaps the Most Painful": The
Theme of Return in Oskar Maria Graf's Letters to Hugo Hartung, Helga
Schreckenberger; Chapter 12. Social Constellation of the Exile at the End
of the Second World War and the Pragmatics of the "First Letters": An
Objective Hermeneutic Structural and Sequence Analysis, Ulrich Oevermann;
Notes on Contributors; Index.