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HIST7357: The Intellectual in Exile in the Twentieth Century

Dr Dina Gusejnova

This course is an introduction to the intellectual history of exile in the twentieth century. What does it mean to look at ‘exile’ from the vantage point of intellectual history and the history of intellectual culture? Often, intellectual historians study the development of ideas in the form of biographies, histories of concepts or political movements. This course develops these approaches further by exploring ‘exile’ as a form of reflected social experience, drawing on methods from intellectual, cultural, and political history. Although the main focus is on the mid-twentieth century, the wider framework of this course begins with the historical connection between political liberalism and the study of exile in the nineteenth century and ends with a study of postmodernism as a culture of metropolitan exiles in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Weekly Topics:

1. Introduction: The cultural history of exile

2. Liberalism, socialism, and the political history of exile

3. The idea of the intellectual

4. Exiles and refugees: approaches in social history

5. The idea of the outsider

6. The idea of the native

7. Intellectuals and the idea of the individual

8. The idea of the boundary

9. The culture of postmodernity

10. Conclusions: from entangled lives to travelling ideas