Lexington Books
Pages: 260
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-5023-8 • Hardback • May 2011 • $132.00 • (£102.00)
978-0-7391-5048-1 • eBook • May 2011 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
Axel Fair-Schulzis assistant professor of history at The State University of New York at Potsdam and author of Loyal Subversion: East Germany and its bildungsbYrgerlich Marxist Intellectuals. Mario Kessler is associate professor of contemporary history at University of Potsdam and author of Historia magistra vitae? +ber Geschichtswissenschaft und politische Bildung.
This collection of essays profiles ten exiled German and Austrian intellectuals who, the editors claim, are “less well-known but not less important figures” (ix) than contemporaries such as Hannah Arendt or Max Horkheimer. The book complements and expands upon the analyses in David Kettler and Gerhard Lauer’s edited volume Exile, Science, and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Émigré Intellectuals (New York, 2005). The essays vary in length and depth, ranging from brief sketches to lengthier analyses.
— German Studies Review