“The years of the Third Reich are distant in time, but their sheer horror will always make them contemporary. At the philosophical level, they make a crisis in the history of the European intellect, so long dominated by the German. From Auerbach’s idealism to Popper’s experimentalism, Weinstein and Zakai pursue its history in that most Jewish of settings, the experience of exile.” Professor J. G. A Pocock, Johns Hopkins University

“In the crucible of exile, each of the eminent German-Jewish scholars who Weinstein and Zakai consider in their enthralling analysis, honed methodological perspectives that reflected the existential and political situation they suddenly found themselves in. In response, they directed their scholarship to uncover the diabolic dynamic and motives animating fascism.”Professor Paul Mendes-Flohr, The University of Chicago; Emeritus Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

“This ingenious and informative book explores the achievement of four formidable thinkers expelled from the Third Reich. They enriched their own disciplines, but in a way that Weinstein and Zakai imaginatively reveal to be gallant political efforts to dispel the nightmare of Nazism.”Professor Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University

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