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Transatlantic Elective Affinities

Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 906. Band

Transatlantic Elective Affinities

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Preliminaries

1

Table of Contents

5

Acknowledgements

7

Waldemar Zacharasiewicz ORCID, Herta Nagl-Docekal

Introduction

9

PART I: The Medical “Grand Tour” to Europe and Nineteenth-Century Cooperation in the Spheres of Education and Natural History

23

Waldemar Zacharasiewicz ORCID

The Debate on Reforms in Education and Academic Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America

25

Carmen Birkle

The Medical Grand Tour: American Physicians In and Out of Europe

47

Christoph Irmscher

“In Gedanken in Amerika”: The Evolution of Franz Steindachner

79

PART II: Political Relations between the USA and Europe before and after World War II

107

Tibor Frank

The Blind Eyewitness: Joseph E. Davies, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow (1936–1938)

109

Philipp Gassert

One World, Or War? Politics, Science, and Popular Culture in the Transatlantic Resistance to the Cold War

139

PART III: Transatlantic Exchanges between Philosophy, Literature and Film Theory since the 1970s

165

Gertrude Postl

Continental Postmodernisms in the USA and Canada: The Mediating Role of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL)

167

Stephen Burns

A Philosopher Crosses the Atlantic: Peter Winch on Philosophy and Ethics

205

Ludwig Nagl

Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Melodrama: Stanley Cavell on Max Ophuls’ Screen Version of Stefan Zweig’s Short Story Brief einer Unbekannten

183

List of Contributors

219

Index

223