Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to AmericaCharts the flight of some of this century's most important thinkers from Nazi Germany to the United States. Jay explores the theories of The Frankfurt School -- among them, the work of Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal and Herbert Marcuse -- as well, such as George Lichtheim, Hannah Arendt, and Henry Pachter. |
Contents
The Metapolitics of Utopianism | 3 |
The Frankfurt Schools Critique of Marxist Humanism | 14 |
The Frankfurt School in Exile | 28 |
The Frankfurt Schools Critique of Karl Mannheim | 62 |
AntiSemitism and the Weimar Left | 79 |
Critical Theorys | 90 |
Introduction to a Festschrift for Leo Lowenthal | 101 |
Implicit Tensions | 107 |
The Loss of George Lichtheim | 141 |
The Extraterritorial Life of Siegfried Kracauer | 152 |
Siegfried Kracauer | 198 |
Notes on a Troubled Friendship | 217 |
The Political Existentialism of Hannah Arendt | 237 |
Remembering Henry Pachter | 257 |
Notes | 263 |
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