Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third... - 9781107166462

Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third ReichBaron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach\nAuthor(s): David Weinstein, Avihu Zakai\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107166462, 978-1107166462\nSynopsis\nHans 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 calamity of European fascism was a profound intellectual crisis, requiring an intellectual response which Weinstein and Zakai now contextualize, ideologically and politically. They exemplify just how extensively, and sometimes how subtl.