Book contents
- Enemy Literature
- Enemy Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Cool Collaboration
- 3 The Invention of the Intelligence Report
- 4 Applied German Folklore
- 5 Nazi German Media Theory
- 6 Germany as a Conceptual Scheme
- 7 The Identity of the Enemy
- 8 Epilogue: To Whom It May Concern
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Cool Collaboration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2026
Book contents
- Enemy Literature
- Enemy Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Cool Collaboration
- 3 The Invention of the Intelligence Report
- 4 Applied German Folklore
- 5 Nazi German Media Theory
- 6 Germany as a Conceptual Scheme
- 7 The Identity of the Enemy
- 8 Epilogue: To Whom It May Concern
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 2 starts with a meditation on David Riesman’s concept of “other-direction,” laid out in his classic study The Lonely Crowd as a theoretical baseline for my book, moving from other-direction to émigré-direction to enemy-direction. I consider various paradigmatic experiences of transatlantic migration and their consequences for American sociality, with a special focus on conceptions theorized by Black intellectuals, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Alain Locke, and their consequences for a symmetrical approach to the intellectual history of American-European collaborations in World War II. The chapter provides a theoretical outline for understanding the sources and aspirations of the cool-headedness observed in these collaborations.
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- Enemy LiteratureHow American Intellectuals and European Émigrés Collaborated Against Nazi Germany, pp. 41 - 65Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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