Andrei S. Markovits: The Passport as Home

Cover: 9789633864210 | The Passport as Home | Comfort in Rootlessness | Andrei S. Markovits

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This is the story of an illustrious Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking, Vienna-schooled, Columbia-educated and Harvard-formed middle-class Jewish professor of politics and other subjects. Markovits revels in a rootlessness that offers him comfort, succor, and the inspiration for his life's work. As we follow his quest to find a home, we encounter his engagement with the important political, social and cultural developments of five decades on two continents. We also learn about his musical preferences, from classical to rock; his love of team sports such as soccer, baseball, basketball, and American football; and his devotion to dogs and their rescue. Above all, the book analyzes the travails of emigration the author experienced twice, moving from Romania to Vienna and then from Vienna to New York.

Markovits's Candide-like travels through the ups and downs of post-[...]ope and America offer a panoramic view of key currents that shaped the second half of the 20th century. By shedding light on the cultural similarities and differences between both continents, the book shows why America fascinated Europeans like Markovits and offered them a home that Europe never did: academic excellence, intellectual openness, cultural diversity, and religious tolerance. America for Markovits was indeed the "beacon on the hill," despite the ugliness of its racism, the prominence of its everyday bigotry, the severity of its growing economic inequality, and the presence of other aspects that mar this worthy experiment's daily existence.

Über den Autor

Andrei S. Markovits is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies; Professor of Political Science; Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Michael Ignatieff Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Origins: The Virtues of Rootlessness Chapter 2. A Paean to Tante Trude (Who Might or Might Not Have Been a Nazi) Chapter 3. Four Friendships: Discovering America in Vienna Chapter 4. Daphne Scheer, Real Madrid and Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan): The Personal Meets the Political Chapter 5. The Rolling Stones Play Vienna (Resulting in Bodily Harm to the City's Jews) Chapter 6. Arrival in New York: The Dream Meets the Reality Chapter 7. Columbia 1968: How the World - and Andy - Changed in a Single Year Chapter 8. Kiki: Big Politics and Little Andy Chapter 9. The Grateful Dead: My American Family Chapter 10. Harvard's Center for European Studies: The Interloper Finds a Home Chapter 11. Dogs: The Rescuer Rescues Himself Chapter 12. Germany: Admiration for the Bundesrepublik, Discomfort with Deutschland-Epilogue.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9789633864210
ISBN-10:	9633864216
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Markovits, Andrei S.
Hersteller:	Central European University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Andrei S. Markovits
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.08.2021
Gewicht:	0,477 kg