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“The Personal History of an Émigré”

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Transformation in the Writing

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Even though I am just now beginning, I am still preparing, and I’ll still be preparing after saying what I have prepared.

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  1. Exercise in Commemoration” (April 25, 1960; 1961), in Trying Sociology ( New York: Wiley, 1974 ), p. 115.

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  2. Karl Wolfskehl, “Der zweite Spiegel: Hiob Simson,” in Hiob oder die vier Spiegel (Hamburg: Classen, 1950), pp. 13–14; the present translation was republished in Trying Sociology, p. 121, with the kind permission of Dr. Margot Ruben, Karl Wolfskehl’s literary executor and trustee.

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  3. Surrender and the Body“ (1974), in Surrender and Catch: Experience and Inquiry Today (Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel, 1976), p. 185. This book will henceforth be referred to as SC.

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  4. Hermann Broch, “Bemerkungen zum `Vorgang’ von Kurt H. Wolff,” in Schriften zur Literatur, Band 1, Kritik (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1975), pp. 398–401; Vorgang in Vorgang und immerwährende Revolution (Wiesbaden: Heyman, 1978), pp. 3–46; Broch’s “Anmerkungen” repr. ibid., pp. 47–49.

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  5. Letter, April 14, 1957, publ. ibid., p. 50.

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  6. Surrender and Catch,“ Chapter 2, pp. 9–17, in SC.

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  7. Hingebung und Begriff (Neuwied und Berlin: Luchterhand, 1968), p. 164.

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  8. Chapter 11, pp. 49–69, in SC.

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  9. Sociological Analysis, 38, 4 (1977): 397–401 (and a commentary by Peter Ludes, ibid.: 402–408). (See Chap. VII, n. 18, below).

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  10. Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind ( New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1970 ), p. 22.

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  11. For earlier discussions of “man as a mixed phenomenon,” see SC (consult Index of Topics).

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    Kurt H. Wolff

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Wolff, K.H. (1995). “The Personal History of an Émigré”. In: Transformation in the Writing. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 166. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8412-8_1

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