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Thinking outside the circle: The Geistkreis and the Viennese "Kreis-Culture" in America
Besides their ideas and social networks, émigré intellectuals bring with themselves practices for engagement with intellectual work. This article focuses on one such practice: the intellectual Kreis [circle]. It focuses on the Geistkreis, an interwar Viennese interdisciplinary intellectual circle. Based on archival research, the article uses a number of case studies to show that the Kreis was employed by the Viennese emigres as a mental scheme and as a recipe for action. It argues that the émigrés' adherence to the Kreis-structure explains the friction between them and their hosts. By following the attempts of former Geistkreis members to create Kreis-like institutions in America, the article shows that the Kreis was more than mere organizational form. It represented an epistemical commitment to knowledge-making as a collective effort, and the preference of general theoretical knowledge over specialized research. It also entailed an intermingling of 'work' and 'life' that did not conform to American norms.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CHOPE Working Paper ; No. 2022-01
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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Wissensmanagement
Kollektives Handeln
Migranten
Flüchtlinge
Österreichisch
Geschichte
USA
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Reiss-Sorokin, Ohad
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Veröffentlichung
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Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE)
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Durham, NC
- (when)
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2022
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10.03.0022, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Reiss-Sorokin, Ohad
- Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE)
Time of origin
- 2022
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