Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich: Baron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach

by David Weinstein and Avihu Zakai

Book Overview

Hans Baron, Karl Popper, Leo Strauss and Erich Auerbach were among the many German-speaking Jewish intellectuals who fled Continental Europe with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. Their scholarship, though not normally considered together, is studied here to demonstrate how, despite their different disciplines and distinctive modes of working, they responded polemically in the guise of traditional scholarship to their shared trauma. For each, the political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108704980
• ISBN13: 9781108704984
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"