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academic institutions: German intellectuals and American, 22, 265n67. See also universities; specific academic institutions

academics, and Marcuse, 108–20

accents: of Arendt, 88; education and, 1, 30; inferiority associated with, 29; stranger persona and, 30. See also language

activism: Marcuse and, 109–12, 118, 125–27, 129, 130, 137, 139, 146; philosophy and, 124. See also New Left

Adams, John Quincy, 46

Adorno, Theodor W., 22–24, 116–18; Marcuse and, 108, 109, 111, 113–15, 120–24, 130; Said and, 206–7, 208

aesthetics: Marcuse on, 135, 136, 138–40; politics and, 139, 140, 278n83

affluent society, 135, 137–38, 148, 151

African Americans, 103; American Jews and, 85, 104; Arendt on, 77–79, 82–84; Marcuse and, 125, 149. See also racism; segregation

After the Last Sky (Said), 206, 233–35, 241

aliens: foreigners as, 45. See also foreigners

Allen, Danielle, 251

America: academic institutions and German intellectuals, 22, 265n67; Arendt and, 5, 8–9, 17, 47–48, 56, 58, 69–107, 269n2, 269n5; capitalism, 9, 31, 112, 128, 131, 132, 143–44, 146, 151; communism and, 184, 190, 193; Europe and, 163; foreign intellectuals leaving, 28; German intellectuals and, 109; German thought and spirit of, 88; investigations, 116; Israel and, 222; jeremiad, 159, 182, 185, 186, 187; Marcuse and, 8–9, 47–48, 108–55; mythological, 156, 158, 181, 184, 192, 195; patriotism, 249; postwar hegemony of, 163–64; press, 180, 183–84, 187–89, 192; revolution and, 144; Said and, 8–9, 47–48, 196–248; Solzhenitsyn and, 8–9, 31, 47–48, 156–68, 170–95; as Soviet Union, 182–84, 190; stranger persona and, 39; totalitarianism and, 133, 164, 184, 190; Western world as, 180–82, 184, 187, 189, 191–92, 194; Zionism and, 222, 224–26. See also Cold War; specific U.S. topics

America Day by Day (de Beauvoir), 15–16

American citizens, 47. See also citizens

American culture, 145; American intellectuals and, 163–64; “Our Country and Our Culture” symposium, 163–64

American democracy, 163, 192; Solzhenitsyn on, 181, 182; Tocqueville on, 10–13, 164–65, 249, 262nn26–27

American Emergency Committee, 56

American freedom, 165; Arendt on, 56, 79; foreign intellectuals and, 50; Solzhenitsyn and, 158, 165, 182, 191, 194

American identity, 195; crisis, 186; détente and, 165; foreigners and, 9, 44

American imperialism, 209; Said on, 197; Solzhenitsyn on, 163, 194–95

American intellectuals: American culture and, 163–64; Arendt and, 57, 74, 76, 88–90, 250–51; on class, 23; communism and, 165; European intellectuals and, 23, 26, 163, 250–51; foreign intellectuals and, 6–9, 15–16, 250, 256; French intellectuals and, 21–22; German intellectuals and, 22–25, 116–19; Marcuse and, 112, 119–20, 124, 250–51; overview, 6–7; on political freedom, 165; on racism, 82; Said and, 198, 200, 204, 206, 224–25, 251; Solzhenitsyn and, 157, 162, 172, 192, 195, 251. See also New York intellectuals; specific American intellectuals

Americanization, of Marcuse, 120–28

American Jews, 25, 69, 87, 274n144; African Americans and, 85, 104; German Jews and, 118; Israel and, 222; Zionism and, 222, 224

American Notes (Dickens), 13

American political discourse: foreigners and, 45–46; on Nazis, 86; stranger persona and, 255–56. See also foreign intellectuals, American political discourse of

American public discourse. See American political discourse; foreign intellectuals, American public discourse of

American Republic, 75, 77–79, 86, 269n2

Americans: acquaintances of Arendt, 5, 71; response to stranger persona, 6, 258; rhetoric of, 159, 194

American travelogues: British intellectuals critical, 13–14; European intellectuals, 10–17; French intellectuals, 10–15; of Tocque ville, 10–13, 262nn26–27

“America the Beautiful” (McCarthy), 16–17

anti-Americanism: Arendt and, 47, 65; European, 14; Marcuse and, 47, 108; Said and, 47; Solzhenitsyn and, 47, 179, 180

anticommunism: détente and, 160; Solzhenitsyn and, 29, 156–58, 160, 162, 170, 171; Western world and, 162

anti-Semitism: Arendt and, 59–61, 103; of Frankfurt Institute, 118; Marcuse and, 118; Said and, 223–24

Arabs, and Said, 198, 199, 202, 214, 215, 217, 218, 220–25, 227–29, 232, 234, 235, 237, 239, 242–44, 247

Arendt, Hannah, 29, 35, 37, 52; accent of, 88; on African Americans, 77–79, 82–84; America and, 5, 8–9, 17, 47–48, 56, 58, 69–107, 269n2, 269n5; American acquaintances of, 5, 71; on American freedom, 56, 79; American intellectuals and, 57, 74, 76, 88–90, 250–51; on American Republic, 75, 77–79, 86, 269n2; anti-Americanism and, 47, 65; anti-Semitism and, 59–61, 103; assimilation and, 57, 58, 61, 63–66, 68; Blücher and, 4–5, 61, 62; communism and, 70; criticism of, 39, 57, 70, 73–76, 79–81, 83–85, 89–91, 94, 100, 104, 105; defamiliarization of, 62, 69, 77, 78, 83, 85, 95–96, 99, 102; on desegregation of schools, 74–86; on discrimination, 75, 77–83, 85, 86, 271n68; early life in Germany, 58–62, 66; on equality, 75, 76–77, 79–82; on estrangement, 62–63, 65; as European, 57, 58, 77, 79, 86–87, 269n5; on evil, 57, 90, 91, 99–105; as foreigner, 4–5, 88; France and, 57, 61–62, 269n5; gender and, 72; as German, 5, 57, 58, 63, 86–105; German intellectuals and, 24, 58–59, 60–61, 63, 66, 69; as German Jew, 65, 66, 69, 86–105; German Jewish intellectuals and, 24, 58–59, 66; at Gurs, 61–62; Heidegger and, 59, 62–64, 71, 73, 271n59; Holocaust and, 89–93, 96–98, 101–4; on human rights, 58, 68; as immigrant, 3–4, 20, 38, 56–57, 87; Jaspers and, 56, 60, 63, 71, 88; as Jewish, 57–70, 77, 86–105, 274n144; Jewish assimilation and, 58, 61, 63–66, 68, 104; Jews and, 61, 63, 65, 66, 69, 81, 89, 91, 94–98, 100–105, 274n144; left and, 70, 71; liberal intellectuals and, 71–73, 76; liberalism and, 70, 71, 79, 80; in New York, 71, 86–105; New York Intellectuals and, 57, 73, 74, 87, 109, 117; overview, 1–9, 30–33, 56–58, 105–7, 250–60; pariah and, 58, 65–69, 83; Partisan Review and, 15, 57, 71, 73; parvenus and, 61, 65–66, 68; as philosopher, 57, 58, 60, 66, 69, 71, 73, 79, 80, 87, 92, 105–7, 109; on plurality, 75, 81, 106; on political realm, 77, 79, 80, 85; politics and, 58, 61, 64, 67–71, 74–86, 90, 105–7, 250–60; power of, 72, 73, 74, 104; on private realm, 77, 80, 84; as prophet, 250; on racism, 75–81, 83–85, 271n68; reception of, 32, 39, 50, 57, 71–73, 256–60; recognition of, 257–60; as “redoubtable woman,” 71; on refugees, 68–69; relationships of, 64; rhetoric of, 82–83; on Rights of Man, 58, 68; on segregation of schools, 75, 76, 80, 81; social realm and, 77, 79–82, 84, 85, 86; as stranger, 62–69, 72; stranger persona of, 31–33, 39, 54–55, 58, 69, 81, 90–92, 99, 104, 105; on totalitarianism, 70, 75, 90, 96, 102, 103; on tragedy, 92; as World War II refugee, 56–57, 68, 69; Zionism and, 60, 69. See also foreign intellectuals

Arendt, Hannah, works: American, 57–58; in Aufbau, 68, 69; Eichmann in Jerusalem, 57, 73, 89–107, 274n126; The Human Condition, 81; irony in, 58, 91, 99–102, 107; Men in Dark Times, 66; “On Civil Disobedience,” 78; The Origins of Totalitarianism, 3, 65, 70, 74, 75, 271n51; overview, 57; Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess, 63–64; “Reflections on Little Rock, Arkansas,” 57, 74, 76, 82, 84, 86, 90, 103, 104, 107; On Revolution, 75, 107, 269n5; style of, 57–58, 85, 91–104; “The Shadows,” 62–63; “We, Refugees,” 68

Aristotle, 40, 41, 92, 106, 259, 260, 262n11

Arizona Department of Education, 1

Arnold, Matthew, 13

art: Marcuse on, 136, 139–40. See also aesthetics

assimilation: Arendt and, 57, 58, 61, 63–66, 68; of German intellectuals, 117. See also immigrant assimilation; Jewish assimilation

Auerbach, Erich, 278n83

Aufbau, 23, 68, 69

authenticity, and politics, 46–47

Baldwin, James, 103–4

Baldwin, Roger, 177

Barrett, William, 16, 71–73, 88

BBC Reith Lectures, of Said, 204

Behdad, Ali, 11

Benda, Julien, 204

Benhabib, Seyla, 64–65, 66, 252

Benjamin, Walter, 18–19, 146

Benvenisti, Meron, 244–45

Bettelheim, Bruno, 90

Bloom, Allan, 88

Blücher, Heinrich, 4–5, 61, 62

Blumenfeld, Kurt, 60, 89

Bohman, James, 86

Boltanski, Luc, 200–203

Boot, Max, 194–95

Bosniak, Linda, 45

Brandeis University, 111, 124

Brecht, Bertolt, 25–28, 54

Breines, Paul, 127–28

British intellectuals, 13–14

Brown, Norman, 130

Brown v. Board of Education, 74, 251

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 253

Buber, Martin, 237

Buruma, Ian, 242–43

Bush, George W., 34

Camus, Albert, 14

Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn), 280n11

capitalism: American, 9, 31, 112, 128, 131, 132, 143–44, 146, 151; Marcuse and, 9, 31, 112, 114, 116, 128, 131–34, 136–39, 143–44, 146–48, 151; totalitarianism and, 133

Carter, Jimmy, 253

Chomsky, Noam, 209

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 41

citizens: democratic theories on foreignness and, 30; ethos of, 5–6, 8; foreigners as inferior to, 36–39; foreign intellectuals as, 37; language and, 30; noncitizen refugees as noncitizen foreigners, 35; political discourse of, 4; refugees and, 34–35; rhetoric and, 41; statecraft, foreigners and, 4; U.S. deportation and, 36–37

citizen’s ethos, 54; foreigners and, 40, 43–44; overview, 40–47; U.S. naturalization and, 46

citizenship, 54; of Said, 196, 205, 242; Solzhenitsyn’s offer of honorary American, 167. See also U.S. naturalization

class, and intellectuals, 23

classicists, and Orientalists, 219

Codrescu, Andrei, 1

Cold War, 138, 148, 151, 174, 259; escapee, 174; foreign intellectuals and, 26, 28, 29; Said and post–Cold War era, 197; Solzhenitsyn and, 157, 158, 161, 162, 173, 178, 181, 185, 193, 194. See also détente

Cold War discourse, 160; Marcuse and, 133, 149, 150; Solzhenitsyn and, 161, 162, 185, 193, 194

colonialism, and Said, 200, 214–16, 225–28, 235, 237–41

Columbia University, 22, 114, 116, 117, 120, 197

Commentary, 16, 25, 76, 82, 141, 142, 165, 231, 235, 237, 238

communism, 133, 166; America and, 184, 190, 193; American intellectuals and, 165; Arendt and, 70; French intellectuals and, 169; German intellectuals accused of, 25–27; Marcuse and, 116, 138; Solzhenitsyn and, 29, 156–58, 160–62, 170, 171, 175–77, 179, 182–86, 190, 193; World War II refugees from, 29, 264n60. See also anticommunism; Cold War; socialism; Soviet Union

Confino, Alan, 243, 245, 246, 287n113

Congress for the Dialectic of Liberation, 110, 137

conservatism: of Solzhenitsyn, 171–72. See also right

cosmopolitanism: of Marcuse, 111–12, 128; of Said, 198, 204, 205, 206, 231

Covering Islam (Said), 202–3

Crassus, Marcus Licinius, 41

critical theory, 116, 123, 128–29

criticism, of foreigners, 9, 10, 23–24, 39

criticism, of foreign intellectuals, 8–9, 251, 255, 260; of Arendt, 39, 57, 70, 73–76, 79–81, 83–85, 89–91, 94, 100, 104, 105; from Europe, 23–26, 39; of Marcuse, 39, 112, 113, 128–30, 132, 134–35, 141–45, 153, 154; political membership and, 252–53; of Said, 39, 216, 217–20, 226, 227–28, 230–32, 235–38, 242–46, 287n113; of Solzhenitsyn, 39, 161, 171–72, 185, 187–93

culture: Marcuse and, 145; mass, 164. See also American culture

Cummings, Elijah, 34

Davis, Angela, 119, 124–25, 137

de Beauvoir, Simone, 14–16

defamiliarization: of Arendt, 62, 69, 77, 78, 83, 85, 95–96, 99, 102; of Marcuse, 150; of Solzhenitsyn, 182

democracy: foreignness and citizens in theories of, 30; totalitarianism and, 133. See also American democracy

Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 10–13, 249, 262nn26–27

denunciation: as investigation, 211–21; master tropes of, 221–32; Said and, 200–203, 211–32

deportation: of Solzhenitsyn from Soviet Union, 156, 157. See also U.S. deportation

Der Philosophie der neuen Musik (Adorno), 24

desegregation: Arendt on, 74–86; school, 74–86

détente, 159, 186; American identity and, 165; anticommunism and, 160; criticism of, 166, 167, 168; Solzhenitsyn and, 166, 167, 178, 179, 183, 185; Soviet dissidents and, 166, 173

“Diary” column, of Said, 209–10

Dickens, Charles, 13

Disch, Lisa Jane, 65

discourse: ceremonial, 159, 179. See also political discourse

discrimination: Arendt on, 75, 77–83, 85, 86, 271n68; against Jews, 65. See also racism

Dissent, 76, 79, 80, 153, 170

dissidents: Eastern European, 170, 173. See also Soviet dissidents

Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak), 168, 193

Douglass, Frederick, 124, 125

Draper, Theodore, 165

Dunlop, John, 167, 283n86

Eastern and Central Europe, 18–19, 264n60

Eastern Europe, 174; dissidents, 170, 173

Eckford, Elizabeth, 76, 83, 84, 104

education: accents and, 1, 30. See also schools

Eichmann, Adolph, 89–107, 274n126, 274n144

Eichmann in Jerusalem: Report on the Banality of Evil (Arendt), 57, 73, 89–107, 274n126

Einstein, Albert, 3

Ellis, Annette, 34

Ellison, Ralph, 83–84

Emergency Rescue Committee, 20

English teachers, 1

equality: Arendt on, 75, 76–77, 79–82; plurality and, 86; Tocqueville on, 12

Eros and Civilization (Marcuse), 122–23, 130–31, 278n65

Essay on Liberation (Marcuse), 31, 134, 135–36, 138–39

estrangement: Arendt on, 62–63, 65; overview, 52–55; Said and, 225, 229, 232–46

ethos, 5–6, 8, 262n11; of foreigners, 43; overview, 40–41; rhetoric and, 40, 41. See also citizen’s ethos

Europe: America and, 163; anti-Americanism, 14; Central, 18–19, 264n60; Eastern, 18–19, 170, 173, 174, 264n60; postcolonialism, 226; Solzhenitsyn and, 168–70, 173; Tocqueville and, 11–12

European intellectuals: American intellectuals and, 23, 26, 163, 250–51; American travelogues, 10–17; anti-Americanism of, 14; on class, 23; criticism of, 23–26; opposing responses to, 21; U.S. immigration of World War II refugee, 17–29, 38–39, 56–57; World War II and, 17–29, 38–39, 56–57, 250. See also British intellectuals; foreign intellectuals; French intellectuals; German intellectuals

Europeans: Arendt as, 57, 58, 77, 79, 86–87, 269n5; Jewish, 24–25, 63, 69

Evans, Fred, 254

evil, 57, 90, 91, 99–105

exiles, and Said, 197, 203, 206, 230–32, 239, 243, 244

Faulkner, William, 79

Fermi, Laura, 38

Fittko, Lisa, 18–19, 61

foreign accents. See accents

foreigners: as aliens, 45; American identity and, 9, 44; Arendt as, 4–5, 88; citizen’s ethos and, 40, 43–44; criticism, 9, 10, 23–24, 39; as different, 5; as enlightened travelers, 10–17; ethos of, 43; as inferior to citizens, 36–39; Marcuse as, 4, 119, 122, 128; political membership of, 9, 32, 45, 251, 252; politics and, 39, 45; refugees as noncitizen, 35; rhetoric and, 41, 42; Said as, 4, 5, 198; Solzhenitsyn as, 4, 172, 187–89, 192; statecraft, citizens and, 4; as strangers, 4, 48–50, 53, 55, 255; U.S. deportation of, 36–37, 44. See also immigrants; specific foreigners

foreigners’ political discourse, 40, 251; America and, 45–46; citizens’ political discourse and, 4; recognition of, 9, 252. See also foreign intellectuals, political discourse of

foreign intellectuals: American freedom and, 50; American intellectuals and, 6–9, 15–16, 250, 256; citizenship of, 37; Cold War and, 26, 28, 29; diasporic politics and, 262n3; differences between, 6; ethos of, 5, 8, 262n3; immigrant assimilation and, 47; language and stranger persona, 260; leaving U.S., 28; political activity of, 20–21, 37, 38; political discourse, 6; as refugees, 35–36, 38; rhetoric of, 253, 255; stranger persona of, 6, 260; as strangers, 255; U.S. deportation of, 37; U.S. immigration of, 38. See also European intellectuals; Russian intellectuals; specific foreign intellectual topics

foreign intellectuals, American political discourse of: contributions of, 1–2; enlarged perspective of, 256; of Marcuse, 109; political membership and, 252–53; reception of, 33, 251–52, 255–56, 265n67; recognition of, 33, 265n67

foreign intellectuals, American public discourse of, 251; Marcuse and, 151; overview, 1–3; recognition of, 9

foreignness: democratic theories on citizens and, 30; immigrant assimilation and, 47

foreign policy. See U.S. foreign policy

Foucault, Michel, 178, 285n50; Said and, 209, 213, 217, 220, 233

Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, 108

France: Arendt and, 57, 61–62, 269n5; revolution in, 144, 176; Tocqueville and, 11–12, 262n26

Frankfurt Institute for Social Research: anti-Semitism of, 118; German mandarins and, 114–15; Jewishness of members, 117–18; Marcuse and, 109, 112–18, 120–23, 128, 129, 131, 132, 145; overview, 22, 113–17; philosophy and, 113–15; politics of, 114–15; socialism of, 114–15; U.S. investigations of, 116

Fraser, Nancy, 257

freedom: Marcuse on, 125, 131, 134, 136, 138, 145, 149. See also political freedom

French intellectuals: American intellectuals and, 21–22; American travelogues, 10–15; communism and, 169; Marxism and, 169–70; Said and, 209; Solzhenitsyn and, 169–71; Soviet Union and, 15, 169, 171; World War II refugee, 21

French Revolution, 176–77

Freud, Sigmund, 122, 123, 130, 229–30

Fromm, Erich, 109, 117, 145–46

Fry, Varian, 20

Geertz, Clifford, 202

Genet, Jean, 207–8

German intellectuals, 70; America and, 109; American academic institutions and, 22, 265n67; American intellectuals and, 22–25, 116–18; Arendt and, 24, 58–59, 60–61, 63, 66, 69; assimilation of, 117; communism and, 25–27; German mandarins, 114–15; Marcuse and, 109, 116, 119–22, 127, 133; socialism and, 20, 23, 28; World War II refugee, 18, 20–28, 57. See also Frankfurt Institute for Social Research; German philosophers; specific German intellectuals

German Jewish intellectuals, and Arendt, 24, 58–59, 66

German Jews: American Jews and, 118; Arendt as, 65, 66, 69, 86–105; Marcuse as, 110, 111, 117

German mandarins, 114–15

German philosophers, 113, 118. See also German intellectuals; specific German philosophers

German politics: Marcuse and, 109, 110; utopia and, 140

Germans: Arendt as, 5, 57, 58, 63, 86–105; Marcuse as, 109–11, 119; World War II refugees, 88

German thought, and American spirit, 88

Germany, 53–54; Arendt’s early life in, 58–62, 66; Holocaust, 89–93, 96–98, 101–4; left of, 140; Marcuse’s early life in, 113; Reichstag fire, 60; Weimar Republic, 63, 113, 115, 116. See also Nazis; World War II refugees

German Zionist Organization, 60

Gilman, Sander, 24

Glazer, Nathan, 38

Goffing, Francis, 21

Goldman, Emma, 37

Grafton, Anthony, 106

Gramsci, Antonio, 204–5

Great Society speech, of Marcuse, 150–52

Greeks, 40–43

Greenspan, Alan, 2–3

Grossman, Edward, 243–44

Gulag: Marxism and, 169, 170; Palestinians and, 227; Solzhenitsyn and, 158, 168, 169, 172, 173, 175–76, 187; violence, 176, 178

Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzhenitsyn), 158, 169, 175–76

Gurs, 61–62

Gurwitch, Aron, 51

Habermas, Jürgen, 4, 43, 116, 254

Halkin, Hillel, 246, 287n113

Harvard: address of Solzhenitsyn, 157–59, 161, 162, 164, 178–89, 191, 193–95; Said and, 196, 212; Solzhenitsyn and, 157–59, 161, 162, 164, 178–94

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 113, 126, 128–29, 132

Heidegger, Martin: Arendt and, 59, 62–64, 71, 73, 271n59; Marcuse and, 113, 115, 120

Herf, Jeffrey, 145

Herzl, Theodor, 226–27

Hitchens, Christopher, 3

Holocaust, 89–93, 96–98, 101–4, 168; Israel and, 201, 210, 211, 227, 229; survivor-witnesses, 175, 176

Honig, Bonnie, 29, 47

Hook, Sydney, 79, 88, 128–30, 162, 189, 191–92

Hoover Institute speech, of Solzhenitsyn, 179, 282n62

Horkheimer, Max, 22, 116–18; Marcuse and, 108, 109, 111, 113–15, 119–23, 128, 130

Horowitz, Michael, 110

Howe, Irving, 90, 170–71

Human Condition, The (Arendt), 81

humanistic consciousness, 182

human rights: Arendt on, 58, 68; of refugees, 68; Rights of Man, 58, 68

Hurricane Katrina, 34–35

Husserl, Edmund, 60

identity: Jewish, 228–31, 246; Palestinian, 200, 206, 208, 209, 233, 242, 245, 246; Russian, 172; Said and, 197–98, 200, 203, 206, 208–9, 211, 223, 229, 230, 233, 238, 240, 242, 245–46. See also American identity

immigrant assimilation, 46, 49; foreign intellectuals and, 47; foreignness and, 47

immigrant intellectuals, 7, 26. See also foreign intellectuals

immigrants: Arendt as, 3–4, 20, 38, 56–57, 87; Jewish, 25, 86; Marcuse as, 3–4, 119, 154; politics and, 1, 252, 261n2; Said as, 3–4, 241–42, 244; Solzhenitsyn as, 3–4; strangers as, 50–51. See also foreigners; U.S. immigrants

immigration. See U.S. immigration

Immigration and Naturalization Service, 21, 27

imperialism: Said on, 197, 200–201, 225, 227, 228; Zionism and, 201, 225, 227, 228. See also American imperialism

inferiority: accents associated with, 29; of foreigners compared to citizens, 36–39

In Search of Palestine documentary, 238

Institute for Social Research. See Frankfurt Institute for Social Research

integration. See desegregation

intellectuals: Arendt and liberal, 71–73, 76; medieval, 7; political affiliations of key, 161–62; Said on, 204–5, 217, 247; transnationalism and nationalism of, 7. See also foreign intellectuals; Western intellectuals

internationalism, of Marcuse, 110, 126

investigation: denunciation as, 211–21; U.S., 116

irony, 58, 91, 99–102, 107

Israel: American Jews and, 222; Holocaust and, 201, 210, 211, 227, 229; Said and, 199, 201, 210, 216, 221–30, 232, 238, 239, 247, 248; U.S. and, 222. See also Zionism

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Said on, 197, 199–201, 203, 205, 207–11, 221, 229, 232, 235–38, 241, 245, 246, 248; U.S. foreign policy and, 200, 209

James, C. L. R., 37

Jaspers, Karl, 56, 60, 63, 71, 88

Jay, Martin, 73–74, 114, 121, 122

Jeanpierre, Laurent, 22

Jefferson, Thomas, 44, 79

Jenemann, David, 265n67

jeremiad, 159, 182, 185, 186, 187

Jewish assimilation: Arendt and, 58, 61, 63–66, 68, 104; parvenus, 61, 65–66, 68

Jewish German intellectuals, 24, 58–59, 66

Jews: Arendt and, 61, 63, 65, 66, 69, 81, 89, 91, 94–98, 100–105, 274n144; Arendt as, 57–70, 77, 86–105, 274n144; discrimination against, 65; European, 24–25, 63, 69; Frankfurt Institute members as, 117–18; Holocaust and, 89–93, 96–98, 101–4; identity of, 228–31, 246; immigrants, 25, 86; Marcuse as, 110, 111, 117; Nazis and, 86, 89, 95–98, 100–102; New York, 117, 118; as pariahs, 58, 65, 66; “smart Jew” stereotype, 24–25; as World War II refugees, 86–88. See also American Jews; anti-Semitism; German Jews; Israel; Zionism

Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 150, 151

Jonas, Hans, 60, 145

Judt, Tony, 3

Kanstroom, Daniel, 44

Kant, Immanuel, 9

Kateb, George, 79, 141–45, 147, 151

Kazin, Alfred, 87, 88

Keen, Harold, 152

Kellner, Douglas, 108, 132, 133

Kennan, George, 166, 253

Kermode, Frank, 141

Kipling, Rudyard, 14

Kissinger, Henry, 1, 167–68

Lacquer, Walter, 17–18, 91

language: citizens and, 30; stranger persona and foreign intellectuals’, 260. See also accents

Lazare, Bernard, 67

left: Arendt and, 70, 71; German, 140; Marcuse and, 112, 114; right and, 162, 165; Solzhenitsyn and, 158, 169. See also liberalism; New Left; radicalism; socialism

legalism, 183

Lenin, Vladimir, 169, 177

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 68

Letters to Soviet Leaders (Solzhenitsyn), 177

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 21

Lévy, Bernard-Henri, 169, 210

Lewis, Bernard, 218–20

liberal intellectuals, and Arendt, 71–73, 76

liberalism, 162; Arendt and, 70, 71, 79, 80; Said on, 200, 201, 225. See also left

“Liberation from the Affluent Society” speech (Marcuse), 137–39

Lipstadt, Deborah, 103

logos, 5

Lolita (Nabokov), 80

London Review of Books, 209

Löwenthal, Leo, 109, 117

Löwith, Karl, 60

Lukács, Georg, 170–71

MacIntyre, Alasdair, 141–42

MacLeish, Archibald, 188–89, 191

Magee, Bryan, 119

Mailer, Norman, 163, 164

Malkki, Liisa, 35, 37

Mandelbaum, Michael, 194

Mann, Thomas, 20, 25–26, 87–88

Marcuse, Herbert, 35, 37, 52; academics and, 108–20; activism and, 109–12, 118, 125–27, 129, 130, 137, 139, 146; Adorno and, 108, 109, 111, 113–15, 120–24, 130; on aesthetics, 135, 136, 138–40; on affluent society, 135, 137–38, 148, 151; African Americans and, 125, 149; America and, 8–9, 47–48, 108–55; on American capitalism, 9, 31, 112, 128, 131, 132, 143–44, 146, 151; American intellectuals and, 112, 119–20, 124, 250–51; Americanization of, 120–28; American political discourse of, 109; American public discourse and, 151; anti-Americanism and, 47, 108; anti-Semitism and, 118; on art, 136, 139–40; on capitalism, 9, 31, 112, 114, 116, 128, 131–34, 136–39, 143–44, 146–48, 151; Cold War discourse and, 133, 149, 150; communism and, 116, 138; controversy over, 108, 111, 134; cosmopolitanism of, 111–12, 128; criticism of, 39, 112, 113, 128–30, 132, 134–35, 141–45, 153, 154; culture and, 145; Davis and, 119, 124–25, 137; defamiliarization of, 150; early life in Germany, 113; as foreigner, 4, 119, 122, 128; Frankfurt Institute and, 109, 112–18, 120–23, 128, 129, 131, 132, 145; on freedom, 125, 131, 134, 136, 138, 145, 149; on Freud, 122, 123, 130; as German, 109–11, 119; German intellectuals and, 109, 116, 119–22, 127, 133; as German Jew, 110, 111, 117; as German mandarin, 114–15; German philosophers and, 113, 118; German politics and, 109, 110; Hegel and, 113, 126, 128–29, 132; Heidegger and, 113, 115, 120; Horkheimer and, 108, 109, 111, 113–15, 119–23, 128, 130; as immigrant, 3–4, 119, 154; internationalism of, 110, 126; as Jewish, 110, 111, 117; left and, 112, 114; legacy of, 153–55; Marxism and, 108, 110, 113, 128, 130–33, 136–38, 147; metonymies of, 146–53; New Left and, 108–12, 119, 124–30, 135, 138, 140, 142, 144, 145, 148, 153–54; Occupy movement and, 108, 153; on one-dimensional man, 131–33, 135, 146–49; OSS and, 112, 116, 119, 120; overview, 2–9, 31–33, 108–12, 153–55, 250–60; pessimism of, 135, 143–47; philosophy and, 108, 109, 111–15, 119–24, 126–30, 135, 137, 138, 140–47, 150, 152; politics and, 108–55, 250–60; as prophet, 250; radicalism and, 109–13, 126, 128–40, 144, 146, 152; reception of, 32, 39, 50, 108, 109, 119–20, 126–27, 140–44, 153–55, 257–60; recognition of, 119–20, 126–27, 257–60; on repressive tolerance, 129, 134–35, 148, 149, 152–53; revolution and, 111, 136–37, 140, 144–55; rhetoric of, 123, 127, 143–53; slang and, 149; on socialism, 138; on Soviet Union, 138; as stranger, 142; stranger persona of, 32–33, 39, 54–55, 110, 112, 119, 124, 127, 133, 137, 138, 144, 154; students and, 110–12, 124–27, 129, 137; on totalitarianism, 131, 133; U.S. investigations of, 116; U.S. naturalization of, 110, 113, 154; on utopia, 135, 136, 139, 140, 143, 144, 155, 278n65; on Vietnam War, 151–52; on violence, 134, 135, 152. See also foreign intellectuals

Marcuse, Herbert, works: Eros and Civilization, 122–23, 130, 131, 278n65; Essay on Liberation, 31, 134, 135–36, 138–39; Great Society speech, 150–52; “Liberation from the Affluent Society” speech, 137–39; One-Dimensional Man, 31, 128, 131–34, 136, 145, 278n65; Reason and Revolution, 128–30, 132; “Repressive Tolerance,” 134–35; Soviet Marxism, 138; style of, 121–23, 129, 141, 142

Marcuse, Peter, 117, 118, 119

Marxism: French intellectuals and, 169–70; Gulag and, 169, 170; Marcuse and, 108, 110, 113, 128, 130–33, 136–38, 147; Solzhenitsyn and, 157, 169–71, 177. See also socialism

McCarthy, Mary, 5, 16–17, 196

medieval intellectuals, 7

Men in Dark Times (Arendt), 66

metonymies: of Marcuse, 146–53; of one-dimensional man, 146–49; of repressive tolerance, 148, 149, 152–53

Middle East: Said on, 197, 199, 201, 209, 220, 221, 224, 243, 247, 248; U.S. foreign policy in, 197

Mills, C. Wright, 112, 133, 147, 163

Milosz, Czeslaw, 28–29, 264n60

misrepresentation, and Said, 211, 214, 216, 217, 224, 225

Morgenthau, Hans, 253

NAACP. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Nabokov, Vladimir, 55, 80

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 74, 75, 84

nationalism: of intellectuals, 7; reception of foreign intellectuals and, 255

national origin, and U.S. immigration, 38, 266n10

naturalization. See U.S. naturalization

Nazis, 60, 61, 62, 69, 70, 151; Eichmann, 89–107, 274n126; Jews and, 86, 89, 95–98, 100–102

New Left: Marcuse and, 108–12, 119, 124–30, 135, 138, 140, 142, 144, 145, 148, 153–54; revolutionary rhetoric for, 144–53

New York: Arendt in, 71, 86–105; Jews, 117, 118

New York Intellectuals, 88, 116; Arendt and, 57, 73, 74, 87, 109, 117

Niebuhr, Ronald, 224, 225

Nobel Prize acceptance speech, of Solzhenitsyn, 175

noncitizen refugees, as noncitizen foreigners, 35

Obama, Barack, 1, 261n2

Occident, 214, 215, 217

Occupy movement, 108, 153, 154

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 112, 116, 119, 120

“On Civil Disobedience” (Arendt), 78

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denosovich (Solzhenitsyn), 168, 176, 193

one-dimensional man, 131–33, 135, 146–49

One-Dimensional Man (Marcuse), 31, 128, 131–34, 136, 145, 278n65

On Revolution (Arendt), 75, 107, 269n5

“On the Designation of ‘Emigrant’” (Brecht), 27

Orient: Occident and, 214, 215, 217; Said on, 213–20, 223

Orientalism: classicists and, 219; Said and, 213–15, 218–19, 223, 225, 247

Orientalism (Said), 32, 197, 198, 200–202, 211, 213–21, 225

Origins of Totalitarianism, The (Arendt), 3, 65, 70, 74, 75, 271n51

OSS. See Office of Strategic Services

“Our Country and Our Culture” symposium, 163–64

Out of Place (Said), 32, 198, 200, 201, 206, 207, 233–39, 240, 242–46, 287n113

Palestinian National Council (PNC), 199

Palestinians: Gulag and, 227; identity, 200, 206, 208, 209, 233, 242, 245, 246; Said and, 31–32, 196–203, 205–12, 221–27, 229, 231–39, 241–48; self-determination of, 197, 198, 208, 211, 234, 241, 247; Zionism and, 221, 223, 225. See also Israeli-Palestinian conflict

pariah: Arendt and, 58, 65–69, 83; Jew as, 58, 65, 66; models of, 67; overview, 66–68; refugee as, 69

Park, Robert, 49

Parry-Giles, Shawn, 46

Partisan Review, 15, 57, 71, 73, 163

parvenus, 61, 65–66, 68

Pasternak, Boris, 168, 193

patriotism, American, 249

Pells, Richard, 7

Phillips, William, 72, 73, 161–64

philosophers: Arendt as, 57, 58, 60, 66, 69, 71, 73, 79, 80, 87, 92, 105–7, 109. See also German philosophers; specific philosophers

philosophy: activism and, 124; Frankfurt Institute and, 113–15; Marcuse and, 108, 109, 111–15, 119–24, 126–30, 135, 137, 138, 140–47, 150, 152; political, 124

Philosophy of New Music, The (Adorno), 24

Pivot, Bernard, 173

plurality: Arendt on, 75, 81, 106; equality and, 86

PNC. See Palestinian National Council

Podhoretz, Norman, 76, 82–83, 104

political activism. See activism

political activity, of foreign intellectuals, 20–21, 37, 38

political discourse: stranger persona in, 33. See also American political discourse; Cold War discourse; foreigners’ political discourse

political freedom: American intellectuals on, 165. See also American freedom; freedom

political membership: criticism of foreign intellectuals and, 252–53; of foreigners, 9, 32, 45, 251, 252; foreign intellectuals’ American political discourse and, 252–53; recognition of foreign intellectuals and, 258

political movements. See activism

political philosophy, 124

political realm, 77, 79, 80, 85

political refugees, 68

politics: aesthetics and, 139, 140, 278n83; affiliations of key intellectuals, 161–62; Arendt and, 58, 61, 64, 67–71, 74–86, 90, 105–7, 250–60; of authenticity, 46–47; diasporic politics and foreign intellectuals, 262n3; foreigners and, 39, 45; of Frankfurt Institute, 114–15; immigrants and, 1, 252, 261n2; Marcuse and, 108–55, 250–60; rhetoric and, 40; Said and, 197–248, 250–60; Solzhenitsyn and, 156–95, 250–60. See also German politics; left; right; socialism

polity, and stranger persona, 32

postcolonialism: European, 226; Said and, 197, 216, 217, 228

press: American, 180, 183–84, 187–89, 192; Solzhenitsyn and, 180, 183–84, 187–90; Soviet, 183, 184

private realm, 77, 80, 84

prophet: Arendt as, 250; Marcuse as, 250; Said as, 250; Solzhenitsyn as, 159, 161, 174, 179, 180, 182, 185, 186, 188, 189, 192, 193, 250. See also jeremiad

public discourse. See foreign intellectuals, American public discourse of; political discourse

Question of Palestine, The (Said), 200, 201, 221, 224, 227

race, and U.S. immigration, 38, 266n10

racism: American intellectuals on, 82; Arendt on, 75–81, 83–85, 271n68. See also segregation

radicalism: Marcuse and, 109–13, 126, 128–40, 144, 146, 152. See also New Left

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess (Arendt), 63–64

Rahv, Philip, 71–72

Rahv, William, 163–64

Rampart, 124

Rand, Ayn, 2–3

Reason and Revolution (Marcuse), 128–30, 132

reception, of foreign intellectuals: American political discourse, 33, 251–52, 255–56, 265n67; of Arendt, 32, 39, 50, 57, 71–73, 256–60; of Marcuse, 32, 39, 50, 108, 109, 119–20, 126–27, 140–44, 153–55, 257–60; nationalism and, 255; perceptions impact on, 5–6, 25; rejection, 29, 251, 254–56; of Said, 32, 39, 50, 197, 214–15, 217, 242, 246, 257–60; of Solzhenitsyn, 32, 39, 50, 158, 167–75, 168, 169, 172, 173, 175–76, 179, 187–89, 195, 257–60; stranger persona and, 255–56, 258, 260. See also criticism, of foreign intellectuals; recognition, of foreign intellectuals

recognition, 256–60

recognition, of foreign intellectuals: American political discourse, 33, 265n67; of Arendt, 257–60; of Marcuse, 119–20, 126–27, 257–60; political membership and, 258; reciprocity and, 258; of Said, 217, 257–60; of Solzhenitsyn, 158, 167, 170–71, 178, 179, 257–60; stranger persona and, 258. See also reception, of foreign intellectuals

“Reflections on Little Rock, Arkansas” (Arendt), 57, 74, 76, 82, 84, 86, 90, 103, 104, 107

refugees, 44; Arendt on, 68–69; citizens and, 34–35; foreign intellectuals as, 35–38; human rights of, 68; Hurricane Katrina victims as, 34–35; as noncitizen foreigners, 35; as pariahs, 69; as universal victims, 35. See also World War II refugees

Reichstag fire, 60

representation: misrepresentation, 211, 214, 216, 217, 224, 225; Said on, 200–203, 210–17, 221, 224, 225, 229, 233, 239, 241, 242, 245, 247

Representations of the Intellectual (Said), 210

repressive tolerance, 129, 134–35, 148, 149, 152–53

“Repressive Tolerance” (Marcuse), 134–35

Reston, James, 188, 190, 191

revolution: America and, 144; French, 144, 176–77; Marcuse and, 111, 136–37, 140, 144–55; rhetoric for New Left, 144–53; Russian, 177; Said and, 208; Solzhenitsyn on, 178, 185; terror and, 177; violence and, 176, 178

revolutionary privilege, 176, 177, 178, 185

rhetoric: American, 159, 194; of Arendt, 82–83; citizens and, 41; ethos and, 40, 41; foreigners and, 41, 42; of foreign intellectuals, 253, 255; Greeks and, 40–42; jeremiad, 159, 182, 185, 186, 187; of Marcuse, 123, 127, 143–53; New Left and revolutionary, 144–53; politics and, 40; of Said, 200–201, 203, 211, 214, 215, 225, 227, 228, 233, 237, 245; of Solzhenitsyn, 159, 179, 185–86, 194

Ricoeur, Paul, 9, 258

Riesman, David, 70, 163, 164

right, 162, 165. See also conservatism

Rights of Man, 58, 68

Romans, 41, 43

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 43

Russia, 53–54; Solzhenitsyn’s return to, 156. See also Soviet Union

Russian intellectuals: Russian identity and, 172. See also Soviet intellectuals

Russian Revolution, 177

Russians: identity of, 172; Solzhenitsyn as, 161, 172–73, 187, 188, 193

Ryan, Paul, 3

Said, Edward, 35, 37, 52; Adorno and, 206–7, 208; America and, 8–9, 47–48, 196–248; on American imperialism, 197; American intellectuals and, 198, 200, 204, 206, 224–25, 251; anti-Americanism and, 47; anti-Semitism and, 223–24; Arabs and, 198, 199, 202, 214, 215, 217, 218, 220–25, 227–29, 232, 234, 235, 237, 239, 242–44, 247; citizenship of, 196, 205, 242; colonialism and, 200, 214–16, 225–28, 235, 237–41; cosmopolitanism of, 198, 204, 205, 206, 231; criticism of, 39, 216, 217–20, 226, 227–28, 230–32, 235–38, 242–46, 287n113; denunciation and, 200–203, 211–32; emotion of, 199, 202, 203, 239, 244; estrangement of, 225, 229, 232–46; exiles and, 197, 203, 206, 230–32, 239, 243, 244; family of, 235–38, 240–42, 244–45; as foreigner, 4, 5, 198; Foucault and, 209, 213, 217, 220, 233; French intellectuals and, 209–10; Freud and, 229–30; Genet and, 207–8; Harvard and, 196, 212; identity and, 197–98, 200, 203, 206, 208–9, 211, 223, 229, 230, 233, 238, 240, 242, 245–46; as immigrant, 3–4, 241–42, 244; on imperialism, 197, 200–201, 225, 227, 228; on intellectuals, 204–5, 217, 247; Israel and, 199, 201, 210, 216, 221–30, 232, 238, 239, 247, 248; on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 197, 199–201, 203, 205, 207–11, 221, 229, 232, 235–38, 241, 245, 246, 248; on liberalism, 200, 201, 225; as literary, 211–13; Middle East and, 197, 199, 201, 209, 220, 221, 224, 243, 247, 248; on misrepresentation, 211, 214, 216, 217, 224, 225; Orientalism and, 213–15, 218–19, 223, 225, 247; Orient and, 213–20, 223; overview, 2–9, 31–33, 196–203, 246–48, 250–60; Palestinians and, 31–32, 196–203, 205–12, 221–27, 229, 231–39, 241–48; PNC and, 199; politics and, 197–248, 250–60; post–Cold War era and, 197; postcolonialism and, 197, 216, 217, 228; as prophet, 250; reception of, 32, 39, 50, 197, 214–15, 217, 242, 246, 257–60; recognition of, 217, 257–60; on representation, 200–203, 210–17, 221, 224, 225, 229, 233, 239, 241, 242, 245, 247; revolution and, 208; rhetoric of, 200–201, 203, 211, 214, 215, 225, 227, 228, 233, 237, 245; as stranger, 198, 205, 211, 231; stranger persona of, 32–33, 39, 54–55, 197–99, 206, 209, 212, 221, 224; structuralism and, 213; on U.S. foreign policy, 199, 200, 209; victimhood and, 199, 201–3, 208, 210, 211, 227, 229, 235, 240, 241, 244; Western world and, 196, 198, 206, 209, 211, 213–15, 217, 220, 223–28, 234, 241, 242, 244, 246, 247; Zionism and, 201, 205, 221–29, 232, 234, 236–39. See also foreign intellectuals

Said, Edward, works: BBC Reith Lectures, 204; Covering Islam, 202–3; “Diary” column, 209–10; After the Last Sky, 206, 233–35, 241; Orientalism, 32, 197, 198, 200–202, 211, 213–21, 225; Out of Place, 32, 198, 200, 201, 206, 207, 233–39, 240, 242–46, 287n113; overview, 198, 200; The Question of Palestine, 200, 201–21, 224, 227; Representations of the Intellectual, 210; In Search of Palestine documentary, 238; style of, 197, 200–201

Sakharov, Andrei, 166

Salomon, Albert, 49, 51

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 14–15, 169, 171, 209, 210

Sassen, Saskia, 44

Scammel, Michael, 168, 173, 283n86

Schama, Simon, 13–14

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 163, 164

Schocken Books, 71, 105

scholars. See intellectuals

Scholem, Gershom, 89, 91, 105, 274n144

schools: desegregation, 74–86; segregation, 74–75. See also education; universities; specific schools

Schutz, Alfred, 39, 50–52

segregation, 82; Arendt on, 75, 76, 80, 81; school, 74–75. See also desegregation

Shklovsky, Viktor, 52–53

Simmel, Georg, 39, 48–51, 55, 268n51, 268n75

slang, 149

socialism: of Frankfurt Institute, 114–15; German intellectuals and, 20, 23, 28; Marcuse on, 138; Solzhenitsyn and, 158, 169. See also communism; left; Marxism

social realm, 77, 79–82, 84, 85, 86

society: affluent, 135, 137–38, 148, 151; Great Society, 150–52

Socrates, 106

Soldier’s Council, 269n18

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 34–35, 37, 52; America and, 8–9, 31, 47–48, 156–68, 170–95; on American democracy, 181, 182; American freedom and, 158, 165, 182, 191, 194; on American imperialism, 163, 194–95; American intellectuals and, 157, 162, 172, 192, 195, 251; anti-Americanism and, 47, 179, 180; anticommunism and, 29, 156–58, 160, 162, 170, 171; in Cavendish, Vermont, 172–73, 283n86; Cold War and, 157, 158, 161, 162, 173, 178, 181, 185, 193, 194; communism and, 29, 156–58, 160–62, 170, 171, 175–77, 179, 182–86, 190, 193; conservatism of, 171–72; criticism of, 39, 161, 171–72, 185, 187–93; defamiliarization of, 182; deportation from Soviet Union of, 156, 157; détente and, 166, 167, 178, 179, 183, 185; Europe and, 168–70, 173; as foreigner, 4, 172, 187–89, 192; French intellectuals and, 169–71; Gulag and, 158, 168, 169, 172, 173, 175–76, 187; Harvard and, 157–59, 161, 162, 164, 178–94; on humanistic consciousness, 182; as immigrant, 3–4; jeremiad of, 159, 182, 185, 186, 187; left and, 158, 169; on legalism, 183; Marxism and, 157, 169–71, 177; on mythological America, 156, 158, 181, 184, 192, 195; offer of honorary American citizenship, 167; overview, 2–9, 31–33, 156–61, 193–95, 250–60; politics and, 156–95, 250–60; press and, 180, 183–84, 187–90; as prophet, 159, 161, 174, 179, 180, 182, 185, 186, 188, 189, 192, 193, 250; reception of, 32, 39, 50, 158, 167–75, 168, 169, 172, 173, 175–76, 179, 187–89, 195, 257–60; recognition of, 158, 167, 170–71, 178, 179, 257–60; return to Russia of, 156; on revolution, 178, 185; rhetoric of, 159, 179, 185–86, 194; as Russian, 161, 172–73, 187, 188, 193; socialism and, 158, 169; as Soviet dissident, 156, 165, 170, 173–74; Soviet Union and, 156–62, 165–79, 181–85, 188, 190, 191; stranger persona of, 32–33, 39, 54–55, 171, 176, 192, 193; as survivor-witness, 175; synecdoche use by, 180–82, 184, 189, 191, 194; totalitarianism and, 157, 162, 175, 178, 184, 185; violence and, 178, 185–86; Western intellectuals and, 180, 188; on Western world, 157, 158, 162–65, 174, 175, 177–84, 186–94. See also foreign intellectuals

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, works, 175; Cancer Ward, 280n11; The Gulag Archipelago, 158, 169, 175–76; Harvard address, 157–59, 161, 162, 164, 178–89, 191, 193–95; Hoover Institute speech, 179, 282n62; Letters to Soviet Leaders, 177; Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 175; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denosovich, 168, 176, 193; on Soviet Union, 158; style of, 170–71, 175, 180–82, 184, 189, 191, 194

Soviet dissidents: détente and, 166, 173; Solzhenitsyn as, 156, 165, 170, 173–74

Soviet intellectuals: Western intellectuals and, 161, 170, 280n11. See also Russian intellectuals

Soviet Marxism (Marcuse), 138

Soviet Union, 70; French intellectuals on, 15, 169, 171; Gulag, 158, 168, 169, 170, 172, 173; Marcuse on, 138; press, 183, 184; Solzhenitsyn and, 156–62, 165–79, 181–85, 188, 190, 191; totalitarianism of, 157, 164, 178; U.S. as, 182–84, 190; violence of, 176, 177, 178; Western support of, 177; World War II refugees escaping, 28, 29. See also Cold War; communism

Sozuk, Nevgat, 255

Spitz, David, 76, 79–80

Stalin, 157, 169, 177

stranger, 39; Arendt as, 62–69, 72; foreigner as, 4, 48–50, 53, 55, 255; foreign intellectual as, 255; as friend, 259; groups and, 51–52; immigrant as, 50–51; Marcuse as, 142; as oracle, 52; overview, 48–54; restrictions on, 50; Said as, 198, 205, 211, 231; Simmel on, 48–51, 55. See also estrangement

stranger persona, 253, 254; accents and, 30; America and, 39; American political discourse and, 255–56; Americans’ response to, 6, 258; of Arendt, 31–33, 39, 54–55, 58, 69, 81, 90–92, 99, 104, 105; estrangement and, 54–55; of foreign intellectuals, 6, 260; language and, 260; of Marcuse, 32–33, 39, 54–55, 110, 112, 119, 124, 127, 133, 137, 138, 144, 154; overview, 2, 53, 55, 250; in political discourse, 33; of polity, 32; reception of foreign intellectuals and, 255–56, 258, 260; recognition and, 259, 260; recognition of foreign intellectuals and, 258; of Said, 32–33, 39, 54–55, 197–99, 206, 209, 212, 221, 224; of Solzhenitsyn, 32–33, 39, 54–55, 171, 176, 192, 193

Strauss, Leo, 2, 3, 61

structuralism, 213

Supreme Court, U.S., 74, 75

survivor-witnesses, 175, 176

synecdoche, 180–82, 184, 189, 191, 194

Taylor, Charles, 257, 260

teachers, English, 1

terror, and revolution, 177

theory, critical, 116, 123, 128–29

“Shadows, The” (Arendt), 62–63

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 10–13, 47, 164–65, 249, 262nn26–27

totalitarianism: America and, 133, 164, 184, 190; Arendt on, 70, 75, 90, 96, 102, 103; capitalism and, 133; democracy and, 133; Marcuse on, 131, 133; Solzhenitsyn and, 157, 162, 175, 178, 184, 185; of Soviet Union, 157, 164, 178

transnationalism, of intellectuals, 7

Trollope, Frances, 13

Tumin, Melvin, 76, 80, 81

UCSD. See University of California, San Diego

United States. See America; specific U.S. topics

universities: students and Marcuse, 110–12, 124–27, 129, 137. See also academic institutions; specific universities

University of California, Berkeley, 137, 153

University of California, San Diego (UCSD), 111

U.S. citizens. See citizens

U.S. deportation: citizens and, 36–37; denaturalization and, 37; of foreigners, 36–37, 44; of foreign intellectuals, 37; overview, 44

U.S. foreign policy: Israeli-Palestinian conflict and, 200, 209; in Middle East, 197; Said on, 199, 200, 209

U.S. immigrants, 47; investigations of “subversive,” 21. See also immigrants

U.S. immigration, 44, 46; Emergency Rescue Committee and, 20; of European intellectual World War II refugees, 17–29, 38–39, 56–57; of foreign intellectuals, 38; iconology of, 18; national origin, race and, 38, 266n10. See also U.S. deportation

U.S. naturalization, 36, 37, 44–45; citizen’s ethos and, 46; deportation and denaturalization, 37; Immigration and Naturalization Service, 21, 27; of Marcuse, 110, 113, 154

utopia: German politics and, 140; Marcuse on, 135, 136, 139, 140, 143, 144, 155, 278n65

victimhood, and Said, 199, 201–3, 208, 210, 211, 227, 229, 235, 240, 241, 244

Vietnam War, 90; Marcuse on, 151–52

violence: Gulag, 176, 178; Marcuse on, 134, 135, 152; revolutionary privilege of, 176, 178; Solzhenitsyn and, 178, 185–86; Soviet, 176, 177, 178

von Trotha, Margarette, 5, 90, 104–5

Walzer, Michael, 45, 228–29

“We, Refugees” (Arendt), 68

Weber, Max, 262n27

Weil, Simone, 21

Weimar Republic, 63, 113, 115, 116

Weiner, Justus, 235–38, 246

Werman, Robert, 238–39

Western intellectuals: Solzhenitsyn and, 180, 188; Soviet intellectuals and, 161, 170, 280n11. See also American intellectuals

Western world: America as, 180–82, 184, 187, 189, 191–92, 194; anticommunism and, 162; Said and, 196, 198, 206, 209, 211, 213–15, 217, 220, 223–28, 234, 241, 242, 244, 246, 247; Solzhenitsyn and, 157, 158, 162–65, 174, 175, 177–84, 186–94; support of Soviet Union, 177

Wheatland, Thomas, 126–27, 265n67

Wieseltier, Leon, 202–3, 230–31

Wilson, Edmund, 224–25

Wolin, Richard, 64, 126

Wolin, Sheldon, 11

World War II, and European intellectuals, 17–29, 38–39, 56–57, 250

World War II refugees: Arendt as, 56–57, 68, 69; from communism, 29, 264n60; Eastern and Central European, 18–19, 264n60; French intellectual, 21; German, 88; German intellectual, 18, 20–28, 57; Jewish, 86–88; political refugees, 68; Soviet Union and, 28, 29; U.S. immigration of European intellectual, 17–29, 38–39, 56–57

Zionism: America and, 222, 224–26; American Jews and, 222, 224; Arendt and, 60, 69; imperialism and, 201, 225, 227, 228; Palestinians and, 221, 223, 225; Said and, 201, 205, 221–29, 232, 234, 236–39

Zolberg, Aristide, 44–45