Jewish Exiles and European Thought during the Third ReichCover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Archives -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Exile and Interpretation -- 1 Hans Baron: Humanism and Republican Liberty in an Age of Tyranny -- Introduction -- Crisis -- Hedgehogs and Foxes: Baron and the Early Italian Renaissance -- Life and Study in Weimar Germany -- The Discovery of Civic Humanism -- Exile -- The Making of The Crisis -- Epilogue -- 2 Karl Popper: "Critical Interpretation" as Fighting Fascism -- Introduction -- Fighting Fascism and the Power of Ideas -- Ambivalence and Assimilation -- Being a Jew and Being of Jewish Origin -- "Arguing from the Concentration Camp"--Critical Rationalism and Critical Interpretation -- Popper's Fascist Plato and Its Reception -- That "dangerous clown," and Marx -- Ideology and Anachronism -- Popper, Berlin, and Their Common Enemies -- Epilogue -- 3 Leo Strauss as "Talmud in the Wrong Place"--Introduction -- The Cave of Historicism -- Franz Rosenzweig -- "Natural Understanding" -- Reading "Exactly" -- Interpreting Hobbes in the 1930s -- The Poison Pill of Hobbes -- Atheism with a "Good Conscience" -- "Platonic" Liberalism -- Philosophical History and Exegetical Magic -- Reading "Exactly," Textual Autonomy, and the Crisis of Modernity -- Epilogue -- 4 Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology -- Introduction -- Knowing the Enemy -- Philology and History -- Philology and Ideology -- From Weimar to Yale -- The Elimination of the Old Testament -- It's Personal -- Epiphany in Istanbul -- Philology, Teleology, and Historicist Humanism -- Mimesis: Form and Content -- Mimesis: Method and Approach -- Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Humanism and Republican Liberty in an | 20 |
Critical Interpretation as Fighting Fascism | 71 |
Leo Strauss as Talmud in the Wrong Place | 131 |
Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology | 193 |
Conclusion | 265 |
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