{"product_id":"the-mind-in-exile-thomas-mann-in-princeton-paperback","title":"The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStanley Corngold\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDeath in Venice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, fled Nazi Germany for the United States. 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. In \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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. Here, 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. Each 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 defense of democratic values. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStanley Corngold\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton University. His many books include \u003ci\u003eWalter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLambent Traces: Franz Kafka\u003c\/i\u003e (both Princeton).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 19, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47456122503346,"sku":"9780691232577","price":46.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/73db837eb1ca05f883c0a265f23c2693.webp?v=1778865913","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-mind-in-exile-thomas-mann-in-princeton-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}