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Called by Heinrich Heine a city of dull and culturally limited merchants where poets only go to die, Hamburg would seem an improbable setting for a major new intellectual movement. This title clarifies the social, political, and economic pressures faced by German-Jewish scholars on the periphery of Germany's intellectual world.

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"Dreamland of Humanists is a deeply researched, well-structured, and elegantly written work of history that brings to life the city of Hamburg, a place which, thanks to its unique Hanseatic economic and political traditions, served as a welcome home for the Warburg Library and the three German Jewish intellectuals most closely associated with its name. Emily J. Levine should be commended." (Peter E. Gordon, author of Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos)"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 16/12/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226061689, 978-0226061689
      ISBN10: 022606168X
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      History of ideas Western philosophy from c 1800

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      Book Synopsis
      Called by Heinrich Heine a city of dull and culturally limited merchants where poets only go to die, Hamburg would seem an improbable setting for a major new intellectual movement. This title clarifies the social, political, and economic pressures faced by German-Jewish scholars on the periphery of Germany's intellectual world.

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      "Dreamland of Humanists is a deeply researched, well-structured, and elegantly written work of history that brings to life the city of Hamburg, a place which, thanks to its unique Hanseatic economic and political traditions, served as a welcome home for the Warburg Library and the three German Jewish intellectuals most closely associated with its name. Emily J. Levine should be commended." (Peter E. Gordon, author of Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos)"

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