The German Genius

Palmier, Weimar in Exile: The Antifascist Emigration in Europe and America , trans. David Fernbach (London: Verso, 2006), a very solid, systematic study of more than 600 pages, with sections on the press, publishing, and literature, on the theater, academics, and on Hollywood at war. Erhard Bahr and Carolyn See, Literary Exiles & Refugees in Los Angeles: Papers Presented at a Clark Library Seminar, 14 April 1984 (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1988), has two sections, one on Weimar exiles and one on English expatriates. Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan, eds., An Interrupted Past: German-speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (Washington, D.C., and Cambridge: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 1991), includes a chapter on German historians in the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), and chapters on Hajo Holborn, Ernst Kantorowicz, and Theodor Mommsen. Mitchell G. Ash and Alfons Söllner, eds., Forced Migration and Scientific Change: Émigré German-speaking Scientists and Scholars after 1933 (Washington, D.C., and Cambridge: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 1996), is admirably detailed. Joachim Radkau, Die deutsche Emigration in den USA (Düsseldorf: Bertelsmann Universitätsverlag, 1971). Helge Pross, Die deutsche akademische Emigration nach den Vereinigten Staaten 1933–1941 (Berlin: Dunker & Humblot, 1955).
5. Anthony Heilbut, Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America, from the 1930s to the Present (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983 and 1997, with a new postscript), pp. 44, 46, 51, and 65.
6. Ibid., p. 77.
7. Ibid., p. 130.
8. Ibid.
9. Lewis A. Coser, Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and Their Experiences (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale Univesity Press, 1984), p. 35.
10. Ibid., p. 47.
11. Lawrence J. Friedman, Identity’s Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson (London: Free Association Books, 1999), p. 157.
12. Ibid., pp. 149ff.
13. Ibid., p. 156.
14. Nina Sutton, The Other Side of Madness , trans. David Sharp and the author (London: Duck-worh, 1995), pp. 120ff. See also Bruno Bettelheim, Recollections and Reflections (London: Thames & Hudson, 1990).
15. Sutton, Other Side of Madness , p. 269.
16. Heilbut, Exiled in Paradise , p. 209.
17. Sutton, Other Side of Madness , pp. 268f.
18. Coser, Refugee Scholars , p. 70.
19. Lawrence Wilde, Erich Fromm and the Quest for Solidarity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 19–36.
20. Coser, Refugee Scholars , p. 72.
21. Daniel Burston, The Legacy of Erich Fromm (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1991), pp. 133ff. for the “pathology of normalcy.”
22. Paul Robinson, The Freudian Left: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1990), chap. 1, on “Freduian radicalism.”
23. David Seelow, Radical Modernism and Sexuality: Freud, Reich, D. H. Lawrence and Beyond (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 47ff.
24. Ash and Söllner, eds., Forced Migration , p. 269.
25. For Hans Jonas, see Hans Jonas, Technik, Medizin und Ethik: zur Praxis des Prinzips Verantwortnung (Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1987), pp. 90f. for the role of research in modern society; and David J. Levy, Hans Jonas: The Integrity of Thinking (Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, 2002), p. 77 for responsibility in a technological age. For Löwith, see Karl Löwith, My Life in Germany before and after 1933: A Report (London: Athlone Press, 1994), pp. 111–119 for his time in Japan.
26. Andrew Jamieson and Ron Eyerman, Seeds of the Sixties (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1994), p. 47.
27. Ibid., p. 50.
28. Heilbut, Exiled in Paradise , pp. 403–404.
29. Ibid., p. 412.
30. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Why Arendt Matters (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 73 for the relevance of Arendt after 9/11.
31. Richard Wolin and John Abromeit, Heideggerian Marxism/Herbert Marcuse (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), pp. 176ff.
32. Timothy J. Lukes, The Flight into Inwardness: An Exposition and Critique of Herbert Marcuse’s Theory of Liberative Aesthetics (Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 1985), p. 46.
33. Jamieson and Eyerman, Seeds of the Sixties , pp. 124–125. See also Robert Pippin, et al., eds., Marcuse: Critical Theory & the Promise of Utopia (London: Macmillan Education,