{"title":"Stanley Corngold","description":"\u003cp\u003eStanley Corngold's works delve into the depths of \u003cem\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003epsychology\u003c\/em\u003e, offering rich, analytical explorations of influential thinkers and complex ideas. His writings often examine the nature of the mind and the existential challenges of human experience with clarity and intellectual rigor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find a thoughtful engagement with topics such as exile, identity, and the intersections of philosophy and literature. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Mind in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e, Stanley Corngold portrays in vivid detail this crucial station in Mann's journey from arch-European conservative to liberal conservative to ardent social democrat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, he wrote great chunks of his brilliant novel \u003ci\u003eLotte in Weimar\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Beloved Returns\u003c\/i\u003e); the witty novella \u003ci\u003eThe Transposed Heads\u003c\/i\u003e; and the first chapters of \u003ci\u003eJoseph the Provider\u003c\/i\u003e, which contain intimations of his beloved President Roosevelt's economic policies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach 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 defence of democratic values.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Mind in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e portrays this luminous constellation of intellectuals at an extraordinary time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000798363884,"sku":"9780691201641","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/591ab1ae7d0ac5548038ef4201c63e34.jpg?v=1773004564"},{"product_id":"walter-kaufmann-by-stanley-corngold-9780691211534","title":"Walter Kaufmann","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life, \u003cem\u003eWalter Kaufmann\u003c\/em\u003e (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe single-handedly rehabilitated Nietzsche's reputation after World War II and was enormously influential in introducing postwar American readers to existentialism. Stanley Corngold provides the first in-depth study of Kaufmann's thought, showing how he speaks to many issues that concern us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKaufmann was astonishingly prolific until his untimely death at age fifty-nine, writing some dozen major books, all marked by breathtaking erudition and a provocative essayistic style. Corngold introduces Kaufmann to a new generation of readers, vividly portraying the intellectual life of one of the twentieth century's most engaging and neglected thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000838602988,"sku":"9780691211534","price":91.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2102483482434.jpg?v=1763309115"},{"product_id":"walter-kaufmann-by-stanley-corngold-9780691165011","title":"Walter Kaufmann","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life, \u003cem\u003eWalter Kaufmann\u003c\/em\u003e (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe was astonishingly prolific until his untimely death at age fifty-nine, writing some dozen major books, all marked by breathtaking erudition and a provocative essayistic style. He single-handedly rehabilitated Nietzsche's reputation after World War II and was enormously influential in introducing postwar American readers to existentialism. Until now, no book has examined his intellectual legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStanley Corngold provides the first in-depth study of Kaufmann's thought, covering all his major works. He shows how Kaufmann speaks to many issues that concern us today, such as the good of philosophy, the effects of religion, the persistence of tragedy, and the crisis of the humanities in an age of technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFew scholars in modern times can match Kaufmann's range of interests, from philosophy and literature to intellectual history and comparative religion, from psychology and photography to art and architecture. Corngold provides a heartfelt portrait of a man who, to an extraordinary extent, transfigured his personal experience in the pages of his books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis original study, both appreciative and critical, is the definitive intellectual life of one of the twentieth century's most engaging yet neglected thinkers. 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