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245 00 $aHannah Arendt and Leo Strauss :$bGerman émigrés
and American political thought after World War II /$cedited
by Peter Graf Kielmansegg, Horst Mewes, Elisabeth
Glaser-Schmidt.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bGerman Historical Institute
;$aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University
Press,$c1995.
300 $ax, 208 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aPublications of the German Historical Institute.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-200)
and index.
520 $aHannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: German Emigres and
American Political Thought after World War II is an
examination of intellectual migration from Europe to the
United States and the resulting influence of European
scholars on both the American academy and their home
countries after 1945. This collection presents essays by
German and American political scientists on Hannah Arendt's
and Strauss's emigre experience and their philosophical work
in the United States. The authors discuss Arendt's and
Strauss's intellectual contributions to American political
science as well as the evolution of their respective oeuvres
that grew out of the emigration experience. As demonstrated
here, the flight from totalitarianism, the Jewish experience
of National Socialism and the Holocaust, and the critical
transference of German political philosophy to the United
States furthered a distinctive interpretation of American
political philosophy. This volume, which concludes with a
roundtable discussion, also suggests common themes in the
work of the two philosophers. Though in different ways and
not uncritically, both of these philosophers viewed the
contemporary American system as the antithesis to European
totalitarianism. Finally, their emigre experience not only
influenced their American work but also had a fundamental
impact on the formation of the discipline of political
science in Germany after the war.
650 0 $aPolitical science$zUnited States$xHistory.
600 10 $aArendt, Hannah$xContributions in political
science.
600 10 $aStrauss, Leo$xContributions in political science.
700 1 $aKielmansegg, Peter,$cGraf.
700 1 $aMewes, Horst.
700 2 $aGlaser-Schmidt, Elisabeth.
907 $b18388309
