Identifying the Impulse: Alfred Lion Founds the Blue Note Jazz Label

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. “Sticking to our language” / “an unserer Sprache festhalten:” Adorno in NYC 9
5. Adorno’s Monsters 27
6. Sounding Through – Poetic Difference – Self-Translation: Hannah Arendt’s Thoughts and Writings Between Different Languages, Cultures, and Fields 55
7. From Königsberg to Little Rock: Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Childhood 80
8. Erich Auerbach’s Second Exile 100
9. Walter Benjamin’s Farewell to Europe 111
10. No Place Yet: Ernst Bloch’s Utopia in Exile 128
11. Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Losey, and Brechtian Cinema 142
12. “Without knowing America, you cannot say anything valid about democratic politics.” Hermann Broch and the Ethics of Exile 162
13. “Lesen Sie before the letter:” Oskar Maria Graf in New York 182
14. Eclipse of Reason: Max Horkheimer’s New York Lectures, 1944 195
15. I’m Not There: New York as Displaced Psychogeography in Uwe Johnson’s Jahrestage 208
16. Bodies: Ernst H. Kantorowicz 221
17. Siegfried Kracauer: The Film Historian in Exile 236
18. Identifying the Impulse: Alfred Lion Founds the Blue Note Jazz Label 270
19. A Flaschenpost Recast: Leo Löwenthal’s Late Writings 288
20. On An Eastward Trajectory Toward Europe: Karl Löwith’s Exiles 305
21. Ethics of Imagination: On Erika Mann’s Works in Exile 331
22. You Can’t Go Home Again: Exiles in Klaus Mann’s The Volcano 353
23. Voyage with Don Quixote: Thomas Mann between European Culture and American Politics 371
24. The Returns of Herbert Marcuse 391
25. Exile is a Flop: Soma Morgenstern over Central Park 414
26. Stranger in Paradise: Erwin Panofsky’s Expulsion to the Academic Parnassus 429
27. The Flight Into Orgonomy: Wilhelm Reich in New York 445
28. Reinventing the Canonical: The Radical Thinking of Jacob Taubes 457
29. “Almost American:” Ernst Toller Abroad 479
30. “Inter, but not national:” Vile´m Flusser and the Technologies of Exile 499
31. Fred Stein (1909–1967): A Retrospective 510
32. Portraits 521
33. About the Authors 547