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  • Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich

    Baron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach

    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 ... Leer más

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    A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics

    Series series Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
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    The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its ... Leer más

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