...Adi Armon During the Weimar years Leo Strauss was intellectually and spiritually close to streams of thought that were averse to liberalism, enlightenment, and democracy. Specifically, he was mostly influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt. The political philosophy...

... refugee intellectuals antifascism and socialism collaboration literary relationships poetry In 1931, when the writer and actress Margarete Steffin met the playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht, she was prepared to be unimpressed. Working-class and active as a communist in Weimar Berlin, Steffin...

... and other Jewish intellectuals for the rights of Romani refugees in the late 1980s. 12 Deniz Utlu’s distinction between strategic and empathetic solidarity, published in the subsequent issue of Jalta , helps gauge the political efficacy of such alliances more precisely. In strategic solidarity...

...Sabine Haenni While promiscuity suggests a certain randomness, intellectual promiscuity implies rigor combined with randomness. This article traces Miriam Hansen's understanding of cinema as a promiscuous medium that can be approached only by adapting an intellectual and methodological promiscuity...

... Europes,” 6 ). Germany wants to place itself squarely in the former category, what G. W. F. Hegel called “the heart of Europe”; it wants to think of itself not as a mere implementer of Enlightenment thought but as its intellectual and ideational motor. 9. Tibi, Europa ohne Identität? , 57...

...B. Venkat Mani This essay focuses on the contemporary German literary public spheres, zooming in on the relation between a republic and its reading public. In the fraught political topography of contemporary Germany, marked by the arrival and eventual acceptance of over one million Syrian refugees...

... of this attribution, vehemently rejecting the one and deploying the other by personalizing it through Jaspers’s intellectual biography and cosmopolitan philosophy. What she negates has been termed “institutional cosmopolitanism,” 9 and what she affirms is, in my eyes, a citizenship of the realm of spirit...

... many transmission belts, allowing the government to monitor “its” intellectuals and making sure that values important to the regime were highlighted in PEN activities. But DDR PEN traded on its usefulness to its state and party, protecting for itself a limited degree of latitude into the 1980s...

... . “The ‘Anthropocene.’” Global Change Newsletter 41 : 17 – 18 . Dowie Mark . 2009 . Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Dunlap Riley E. Brulle Robert J. , eds. 2015 . Climate Change and Society...

...Fatima El-Tayeb This article explores the structural dependence of humanities disciplines on a Eurocentric model of knowledge production that inevitably marginalizes racialized communities, scholars of color, and their intellectual productions. Using the increasing attacks on the interdisciplines...

...”) that silently question and haunt the finality of the published work. Such text-historical analysis requires archival research. Kracauer’s Theory of Film was conceived in the fall of 1940, when Kracauer was a refugee in Marseille, fearing for his life as he awaited passage to New York. His...

... of Loewenstein is Markus Lang, Karl Loewenstein: Transatlantischer Denker der Politik (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007), 88–171. For all its merits, however, it overlooks some of Loewenstein’s most important political and intellectual works, including those on human rights...

... articulations and formations of resistance amid the twenty-first century’s health, social, political and refugee crises. References Arendt Hannah . The Origins of Totalitarianism . 1968 ; repr., New York : Harcourt , 1994 . Benjamin Walter . “ The Crisis of the Novel ,” translated...

..., then it is this intertwining of the magnificent—unwilling to hold itself to any conventionally established border—with the monstrous” (WIG, 124). 22 Unwavering intellectual radicalism had as its corollary the rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany: continuing to cultivate it would mean courting the permanent possibility...

.... Mannhardt studied law and classical philology for a period of time at Heidelberg. See Edith Hanke, “‘Max Weber’s Desk Is Now My Altar’: Marianne Weber and the Intellectual Heritage of Her Husband,” History of European Ideas 35 (2009): 354; Lewis A. Coser, Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact...

... refugees, no limit,” were directed first to Karlsruhe, then to Heidelberg. Overwhelmed by having just moved to the United States to study and too poor for the back-and-forth that emigration necessitates, I did not join them. Instead, I took a junior year abroad in Munich, eventually immigrating into German...

... younger intellectuals. 27 Though by no means a junior scholar, and indeed widely respected by those who knew him (and known well enough to be recruited to HUC as a scholar-refugee), in 1940 Heschel was not nearly as famous or established as Scholem. Yet it is not surprising that Scholem would reach out...

... of this special issue who shepherded the articles to completion (Sven-Erik), we thank the contributors for their intellectual companionship, exceptional engagement, and humor. Introduction David Bathrick and Sven-Erik Rose A significant cultural and political development...

... with the Swedish police and the narrator’s observations on his exile in Sweden, for instance, give a sense of the unwillingness of the Swedish population to welcome refugees during World War II and of the isolation of refugees in legal systems that “positioned the interest of the national alone as decisive” ( AoR...

... politics under Nazi rule, Arendt’s political thought develops as a systematic critique and response to the histories of antisemitism, imperialism, and totalitarianism. After joining the Nazi Party in 1933, Schmitt endorsed the expulsion of Jewish intellectuals from Germany, celebrated the burning...