Title: "Escape to life" :
Authors: Goebel, Eckart.; Weigel, Sigrid.
Date: 2012
Publisher: De Gruyter,
Physical description: vii, 553 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: P
Contents: "Sticking to our language" / "an unserer Sprache festhalten:" Adorno in NYC / Birgit R. Erdle -- Adorno's monsters / Jacques Lezra -- Souding through, poetic difference, self-translation: Hannah Arendt's thoughts and writings between different languages, cultures, and fields / Sigrid Weigel -- From Königsberg to Little Rock: Hannah Arendt and the concept of childhood / Liliane Weissberg -- Erich Auerbach's second exile / Karlheinz Barck -- Walter Benjamin's farewell to Europe / Vivian Liska -- No place yet: Ernst Block's utopia in exile / Falko Schmieder -- Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Losey, and Brechtian cinema / Robert Cohen -- "Without knowing America, you cannot say anything valid about democratic politics": Hermann Broch and the ethics of exile / Daniel Weidner -- "Lesen Sie before the letter:" Oskar Maria Graf in New York / Robert Stockhammer -- Elicpse of reason: Max Horkheimer's New York lectures, 1944 / Eckart Goebel --^ I'm not there: New York as displaced psychogeography in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage / Michael W. Jennings -- Bodies: Ernst H. Kantorowicz / Paul Fleming -- Siegfried Kracauer: the film historian in exile / Anton Kaes -- Identifying the impulse: Alfred Lion founds the Blue Note jazz label / Stephen Braese -- A Flaschenpost recast: Leo Löwenthal's late writings / Jerome Bolton -- On an eastward trajectory toward Europe: Kark Löwith's exiles / Rodolphe Gasché -- Ethics of imagination: On Erika Mann's works in exile / Jonathan Kassner -- You can't go home again: exiles in Klaus Mann's The volcano / Nicola Behrmann -- Voyage with Don Quixote: Thomas Mann between European culture and American politics / Anne-Kathrin Reulecke -- The returns of Herbert Marcuse / Elke Siegel -- Exile is a flop: Soma Morgenstern over Central Park / Paul North -- Stranger in paradise: Erwin Panofsky's expulsion to the academic Parnassus / Andreas Beyer --^ The flight into orgonomy: Wilhelm Reich in New York / John T. Hamilton -- Reinventing the canonical: the radical thinking of Jacob Taubes / Martin Treml -- "Almost American:" Ernst Toller abroad / Thomas Stachel -- "Inter, but not national:" Vilém Flusser and the technologies of exile / Chadwick Smith -- Fred Stein (1909-1967): a retrospective / Dawn Freer -- Portraits / Fred Stein.