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The Mind in Exile
Stanley Corngold
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States
In September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize–winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Heralded as “the greatest living man of letters,” Mann settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where, for nearly three years, he was stunningly productive as a novelist, university lecturer, and public intellectual. In The Mind in Exile, Stanley Corngold portrays in vivid detail this crucial station in Mann’s journey from arch-European conservative to liberal conservative to ardent social democrat.
On the knife-edge of an exile that would last fully fourteen years, Mann declared, “Where I am, there is Germany. I carry my German culture in me.” At Princeton, Mann nourished an authentic German culture that he furiously observed was “going to the dogs” under Hitler. Here, he wrote great chunks of his brilliant novel Lotte in Weimar (The Beloved Returns); the witty novella The Transposed Heads; and the first chapters of Joseph the Provider, which contain intimations of his beloved President Roosevelt’s economic policies. Each of Mann’s university lectures—on Goethe, Freud, Wagner—attracted nearly 1,000 auditors, among them the baseball catcher, linguist, and O.S.S. spy Moe Berg. Meanwhile, Mann had the determination to travel throughout the United States, where he delivered countless speeches in defense of democratic values.
In Princeton, Mann exercised his “stupendous capacity for work” in a circle of friends, all highly accomplished exiles, including Hermann Broch, Albert Einstein, and Erich Kahler. The Mind in Exile portrays this luminous constellation of intellectuals at an extraordinary time and place.
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Desecration, Inspectorate, Bad tendency, Biography, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Walter Kaufmann (philosopher), Waste management, Censorship, Hatred, Senescence, Contradiction, Novel, Nazi Germany, Shame, Gershom Scholem, Humiliation, Primitivism, Raoh, Antipathy, Americans, Despair (novel), Debasement, The Unnamed, Totalitarianism, Slavery, Renunciation, Irony, Memoir, Sche, Spiritual death, Wishful thinking, Persecution, Boredom, Thought, Philosophy, Cynicism (philosophy), Prediction, Lecture, Hunter College, Posthumanism, Slackness, Gilles Deleuze, Manifesto, Attempt, Mourning, Allusion, Cynicism (contemporary), Adolf Hitler, Debt, Lower Egypt, Obsolescence, Writing, Monograph, Correspondent, James T. Farrell, Resentment, Subtext, Form of life (philosophy), Nazism, Eloquence, Bankruptcy, Dismemberment, In Death, Allegory, Disease, Mood (psychology), Ideology, Annexation, Propaganda, Awareness