David Weinstein, Avihu Zakai

Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of how forced exile from 1930s Germany informed the scholarship of four German-speaking, Jewish intellectuals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 317
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781108704984
• ISBN-10: 1108704980
• Artikelnr.: 53604532

Autorenporträt

David Weinstein is Emeritus Professor at Wake Forest University, North Carolina and Honorarprofessur für Ideenhistoriker at Carl V. Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. His previous publications include Equal Freedom and Utility (Cambridge, 1998), The New Liberalism (with Avital Simhony, Cambridge, 2001) and Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism (Cambridge, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Hans Baron: humanism and Republican liberty in an age of tyranny
2. Karl Popper: critical interpretation as fighting fascism
3. Leo Strauss as Talmud in the wrong place
4. Erich Auerbach and the crisis of German philology.