Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (101 page)

All interviews were conducted by the author unless otherwise indicated; transcripts are in author’s possession. Unless otherwise noted, all translations were by the author. Hirschman’s diaries are in the possession of Katia Salomon.

  
1
. Edward Said, “Reflections on Exile,” in
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
(Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), pp. 173–186.

  
2
. Lepenies’ speech at Freien Universität, 3 Dec. 1988, box 1, folder 13, AOHP.

  
3
. Eva Montefiore, interview, 16 Oct. 2006.

  
4
. AOH to UH, June 1932, PP.

  
5
. “Conversation with Clifford Geertz and Albert Hirschman on ‘The Hungry, Crowded, Competitive World,’ ” IAS, 27 Jan. 1976, box 10, folder 3, AOHP.

  
6
. AOH to Augusto Monterroso, 21 Sept. 1971, PP.

  
7
. AOH to Daniel Bell, 15 Sept. 1993, box 76, folder 1, AOHP.

  
8
. AOH to SH, 1 Mar. 1944, PP.

  
9
. Quentin Skinner to AOH, 6 Oct. 1981, box 11, folder 8, AOHP.

10
. Louis Menand, “Lives of Others,”
New Yorker
, 6 Aug. 2007, p. 74.

11
. Hermione Lee,
Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), p. 4.

  
1
. CH to HH, June 1916, PP; see AOH, interview, 3 Nov. 2007.

  
2
. Peter Gay,
My German Question: Growing up in Nazi Germany
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), p. 13.

  
3
. EH to author, 22 Dec. 2007, in author’s possession.

  
4
. Eric Weitz,
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).

  
5
. Alexandra Richie provides an invaluable portrait in
Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin
(New York: Carrol and Graf, 1998).

  
6
. Deborah Hertz,
How Jews Became German: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).

  
7
. CH to HH, 12 June 1930, PP.

  
8
. Hannah Arendt, “Privileged Jews,”
Jewish Social Studies
8:3–30 (Jan. 1946), p. 6; Gershom Scholem,
From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memoirs of My Youth
(New York: Schocken Books, 1980), pp. 25–27.

  
9
. Christopher Clark,
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
(Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), p. 424.

10
. AOH, interview, 3 Nov. 2007; EH, interview, 29 Nov. 2006; AOH, interview by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat, n.d., box 15, folder 4, AOHP, p. 1 (hereafter, Dauzat interview);
AOH, interview by Henri Jacob Hempel, Princeton April 1984 and Berlin, June 1991, PP, p. 5 (hereafter, Hempel interview).

11
. AOH to KS, 25 Oct. 1982 and 18 May 1983, KSPP.

12
. Hempel interview, p. 7.

13
. EH, interview, 29 Nov. 2006.

14
. Ursula Hirschmann,
Noi senzapatria
(Milan: Il Mulino, 1993), pp. 79–80.

15
. CH to HH, 26 June 1930, PP.

16
. EH, interview, 12 Dec. 2007; Weitz,
Weimar Germany
, p. 55.

17
. Hempel interview, p. 4; SH, interview, 11 Oct. 2005.

18
. Hempel interview, p. 3.

19
. UH,
Noi senzapatria
, p. 81.

20
. EH to AOH, Oct. 1936, PP.

21
. AOH, interview, 6 May 2002; SH, interview, 11 Oct. 2005.

22
. AOH and SH, interview, 11 Oct. 2005.

23
. Fritz Stern,
Five Germanys I Have Known
(New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2006), p. 21.

24
. AOH, “Four Reencounters,” in
A Propensity to Self-Subversion
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), p. 105.

25
. EH, interview, 29 Nov. 2007; UH,
Noi senzapatria
, 67–69.

26
. AOH, interview, 6 May 2002; AOH to Joseph Bogen, n.d., PP.

27
. Hempel interview, p. 2.

28
. EH, interview, 12 Nov. 2007.

29
. CH to HH, 17 June 1930 and 18 June 1930, PP.

30
. CH to HH, 18 June 1930, PP.

31
. AOH, interview, 6 May 2002.

32
. CH to AOH, 14 July 1925, PP.

33
. AOH, “My Father and Weltanschauung circa 1928,” in
Propensity
, p. 111.

34
. Hempel interview, p. 6.

35
. EH to AOH, October 1936, PP.

36
. Dauzat interview, p. 5; Hempel interview, p. 1.

37
. CH to HH, 5 June 1930, PP.

38
. AOH to parents, 1 Jan. 1930, PP.

39
. AOH to UH, 27 June 1931, PP; AOH, “Four Reencounters,” in
Propensity
, p. 106; SH, interview, 8 Aug. 2005.

40
. EH to AOH, Oct. 1936, PP; AOH to EH, 1 Jan. 1929, PP.

41
. AOH, interview, 6 May 2002; Hempel interview, p. 27–28; UH,
Noi senzapatria
, pp. 81–83.

42
. AOH to UH, 27 June 1931, PP.

43
. Hempel interview, p. 3.

44
. Ibid., pp. 2–3.

45
. Christopher Kobrak,
National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 1851–1950
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 96–97.

46
. AOH to parents, 14 July 1931, PP.

47
. AOH to parents, 24 July 1931, PP.

48
. AOH, interview, 6 May 2002.

49
. CH to HH, 26 June 1930, PP; UH,
Noi senzapatria
, p. 37.

50
. EH, interview, 29 Nov. 2007; Hempel interview, p. 6.

51
. EH, interview, 3 Nov. 2007; Konrad Katzenellenbogen, interview, 3 Jan. 2008.

52
. UH,
Noi senzapatria
, pp. 73–74.

53
. Ibid., p. 52.

  
1
. Box 76, folder 18, AOHP.

  
2
. Hempel interview, p. 12.

  
3
. Dauzat interview, p. 18.

  
4
. AOH,
Der Geist, die Welt der Sittlichkeit und die Vernunft in Hegels “Phänomenologie des Geistes”—Interpretation eines Abschnittes aus der Phänomenologie
, PP; Hempel interview, pp. 11–13; AOH, “On Hegel, Imperialism, and Structural Stagnation,”
Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 167–175.

  
5
. Dauzat interview, p. 7; AOH, interview, 6 July 2002.

  
6
. Eric Weitz,
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), pp. 254–256.

  
7
. AOH to parents, 20 June 1930, PP.

  
8
. Hempel interview, p. 16

  
9
. Dauzat interview, p. 5.

10
. Hempel interview, p. 6.

11
. AOH, “Four Reencounters,” in
Propensity
, p. 109.

12
. SH, interview, 11 Oct. 2007.

13
. AOH, interview, 6 July 2002.

14
. Hempel interview, 9.

15
. Donna Harsch,
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993); William David Jones,
The Lost Debate: German Socialist Intellectuals and Totalitarianism
(Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999), p. 61.

16
. Hempel interview, p. 10; Dauzat interview, p. 12. Ursula also recalls an intense meeting and debate in the working-class neighborhood of Alexanderplatz with a
mysterious character with the pseudonym Miles. Later she would learn that this Miles was Richard Löwenheim. Lenin quotation from “The International Situation and the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International,”
Report to the Second Congress of the Communist International
, 19 July 1920; the quotation is cited and paraphrased often in Hirschman’s writings.

17
. AOH,
Crossing Boundaries
, pp. 51–52; KS to author, 16 Dec. 2003, in author’s possession.

18
. AOH,
Crossing Boundaries
, p. 51.

19
. Weitz,
Weimar Germany
, pp. 111–113.

20
. KS to author, 16 Dec. 2003.

21
. CH to HH, 17 June 1930, PP.

22
. Hempel interview, p. 3; EH, interview, 14 Nov. 2007; Ursula Hirschmann,
Noi senzapatria
(Milan: Il Mulino, 1993), p. 75.

23
. Hempel interview, p. 33.

24
. Berlin Universität transcript, 22 Feb. 1933, PP.

25
. Fritz Stern,
Five Germanys I Have Known
(New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2006), p. 105.

26
. UH,
Noi senzapatria
, p. 98.

27
. Ibid., p. 100.

28
. Dauzat interview, p. 35.

29
. AOH, interview, 20 May 2002.

30
. SH, interview, 11 Oct. 2007; AOH,
Crossing Boundaries
, p. 54.

31
. Jürgen Kuczynksi,
Ein treuer Rebell. Memoiren, 1994–1997
(Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1998), pp. 244–245.

32
. AOH, “Four Reencounters,” in
Propensity
, p. 103.

33
. EH, interview, 12 and 14 Nov. 2007.

34
. EH, interview, 14 Nov. 2007.

35
. AOH, interview, 15 May 2002.

36
. Transcript from Hirschman interview, Exile Film Project Records, VC-59/8,Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT., p. 2.

37
. AOH to HH, 28 Mar. 1934.

38
. AOH to HH, 8 Sept. 1933.

  
1
. SH and AOH, interview, 25 July 2005.

  
2
. AOH, “Four Reencounters,” in
Propensity
, pp. 95–96.

  
3
. Ursula Hirschmann,
Noi senzapatria
(Milan: Il Mulino, 1993), p. 109.

  
4
. Sabine Offe, email message to author, 26 Aug. 2011, in author’s possession; UH,
Noi senzapatria
, pp. 109 and 117; Hempel interview, p. 19.

  
5
. AOH, “Four Reencounters,” in
Propensity
, p. 106.

  
6
. Eugen Weber,
The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1994), pp. 34–36.

  
7
. AOH, interview, 2 Oct. 2003;
Crossing Boundaries
, p. 57; “My Father and Weltanschaaung, circa 1928,” in
Propensity
, pp. 113–114.

  
8
. Marc Nouschi,
Histoire et pouvoire d’une Grande École: HEC
(Paris: R. Laffont, 1988), pp. 30–31.

  
9
. “HEC” notes, n.d., PP.

10
. AOH to HH, 21 Mar. 1935, PP.

11
. Hempel interview, pp. 18–19; AOH to HH, 9 Apr. 1934 and 24 Apr. 1935, PP.

12
. Undated letter from R. Arasse, Entr’aide universitaire international, PP.

13
. AOH to HH, 3 May 1935; EH, interviews, 12 and 14 Nov. 2007; AOH, interview, 20 May 2002.

14
. AOH to HH, 24 Apr. 1935, PP.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Ibid.; SH, interview, 16 July 2009.

17
. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl,
Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 118.

18
. AOH to Grégoire Salomon, 15 Feb. 1989, PP.

19
. Hempel interview, p. 18.

20
. Transcript from Hirschman interview, Exile Film Project Records, VC-59/8,Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT., p. 3.

21
. SH, interview, 23 Sept. 2007.

22
. Hempel interview, pp. 21–22; Claudie Weill, “Le Bund russe à Paris, 1898–1940,”
Archives juives
2001/2, no. 34, pp. 30–42.

23
. AOH, interviews, 21 Apr. 2002 and 2 Oct. 2003; UH,
Noi senzapatria
, pp. 117–120.

24
. Hempel interview, p. 21.

25
. Dauzat interview, p. 13.