Prof James Schmidt Presents Paper in Munich
Professor James Schmidt will be presenting a paper on “The “New Failure of Nerve,” the Eclipse of Reason, and the Critique of Enlightenment in New York and Los Angeles, 1943-1949” at a conference on “The Enlightenment between Europe and the United States” to be held at Center for Advanced Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. The paper explores the contrasting ways in which the Enlightenment was conceptualized by members of the Partisan Review circle (including, Sidney Hook, Lionel Trilling, and Richard Chase) and by the emigre intellectuals Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Norbert Guterman.
