Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

The study of intellectual exile: a paradigm -- Self-knowledge and sociology: Nina Rubinstein's exile studies -- A German subject to recall: Hans Mayer as internationalist, cosmopolitan, outsider and/or exile -- Exile as process: the case of Franz L. Neumann -- The symbolic uses of exile: Erich Kahler at Ohio State -- First letters: the liquidation of exile? -- The second wave: an autobiographical exercise.

A theoretical overview and six case studies showing that the exile of intellectuals is a difficult, dependent, and fluid condition, whose achievements are dearly bought and whose endings rarely fulfill the missions informing their beginnings.