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Exile, Science and BildungPaul Oskar Kristeller, Ernst Cassirer, and the “Humanistic Turn” in the American Emigration

Exile, Science and Bildung: Paul Oskar Kristeller, Ernst Cassirer, and the “Humanistic Turn” in... [History bears the marks of the life of those who write it. This truism also applies to the scholarship of the historian of Renaissance philosophy Paul Oskar Kristeller (1905–1999). Moreover, in his scholarly works Kristeller responded, albeit indirectly, to what since Nietzsche became a basic ingredient of the Weltanschauung and the academic discourses of the German educated middle class: the perception of a Sinnkrise. By this I mean the widespread apprehension of the crisis of the self, meaning, and culture. While the notion of an all-pervasive crisis resulted in the first instance from Germany’s rapid industrialization and the experience of World War I and their corollaries, modern technology, mass society and social leveling, the history of the 1930s and 1940s could not but exacerbate it for émigré humanists like Kristeller, not least because they were victimized by a movement that enlisted many of their erstwhile colleagues and almost all of their own students, who convicted them of guilt for the crisis, and who triumphantly proclaimed that their expulsion marked the end of the crisis.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Exile, Science and BildungPaul Oskar Kristeller, Ernst Cassirer, and the “Humanistic Turn” in the American Emigration

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series
Editors: Kettler, David; Lauer, Gerhard
Schiller, Kay
Exile, Science and Bildung — Feb 22, 2016
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
ISBN
978-1-349-73456-6
Pages
125 –138
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-04596-6_9
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Abstract

[History bears the marks of the life of those who write it. This truism also applies to the scholarship of the historian of Renaissance philosophy Paul Oskar Kristeller (1905–1999). Moreover, in his scholarly works Kristeller responded, albeit indirectly, to what since Nietzsche became a basic ingredient of the Weltanschauung and the academic discourses of the German educated middle class: the perception of a Sinnkrise. By this I mean the widespread apprehension of the crisis of the self, meaning, and culture. While the notion of an all-pervasive crisis resulted in the first instance from Germany’s rapid industrialization and the experience of World War I and their corollaries, modern technology, mass society and social leveling, the history of the 1930s and 1940s could not but exacerbate it for émigré humanists like Kristeller, not least because they were victimized by a movement that enlisted many of their erstwhile colleagues and almost all of their own students, who convicted them of guilt for the crisis, and who triumphantly proclaimed that their expulsion marked the end of the crisis.]

Published: Feb 22, 2016

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