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

Cover......Page 1
Half title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Archives......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 11
Introduction: Exile and Interpretation......Page 13
 Introduction......Page 32
 Crisis......Page 36
 Hedgehogs and Foxes: Baron and the Early Italian Renaissance......Page 39
 Life and Study in Weimar Germany......Page 44
 The Discovery of Civic Humanism......Page 57
 Exile......Page 66
 The Making of The Crisis......Page 74
 Epilogue......Page 79
 Introduction......Page 83
 Fighting Fascism and the Power of Ideas......Page 84
 Ambivalence and Assimilation......Page 87
 Being a Jew and Being of Jewish Origin......Page 92
 “Arguing from the Concentration Camp”......Page 95
 Critical Rationalism and Critical Interpretation......Page 102
 Popper’s Fascist Plato and Its Reception......Page 113
 That “dangerous clown,” and Marx......Page 122
 Ideology and Anachronism......Page 128
 Popper, Berlin, and Their Common Enemies......Page 130
 Epilogue......Page 139
 Introduction......Page 143
 The Cave of Historicism......Page 146
 Franz Rosenzweig......Page 155
 “Natural Understanding”......Page 158
 Reading “Exactly”......Page 164
 Interpreting Hobbes in the 1930s......Page 167
 The Poison Pill of Hobbes......Page 180
 Atheism with a “Good Conscience”......Page 184
 “Platonic” Liberalism......Page 188
 Philosophical History and Exegetical Magic......Page 194
 Reading “Exactly,” Textual Autonomy, and the Crisis of Modernity......Page 197
 Epilogue......Page 202
 Introduction......Page 205
 Knowing the Enemy......Page 207
 Philology and History......Page 216
 Philology and Ideology......Page 222
 From Weimar to Yale......Page 224
 The Elimination of the Old Testament......Page 232
 It’s Personal......Page 246
 Epiphany in Istanbul......Page 250
 Philology, Teleology, and Historicist Humanism......Page 255
 Mimesis: Form and Content......Page 259
 Mimesis: Method and Approach......Page 266
 Epilogue......Page 270
Conclusion......Page 277
Bibliography......Page 285
Index......Page 308