French intellectuals resented German refugee scholars’ work ethic and were less welcoming than Americans
Evidence
The typical French intellectual, who wanted security and a predictable future for himself and his family, found his way of life threatened by those damn German intellectuals, who did not spend their time drinking aperitifs with their friends but worked twice as hard as the Frenchman. They worked for the sake of God or, if they were not religious believers, for work’s sake, which for a true German scholar is almost the same. Accordingly, in contrast to the sympathetic attitude in the United States, the French did not welcome the appointment of German scholars in their midst. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 177
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Occupation-era French intellectuals cultivated deliberate rudeness toward Germans as patriotic resistance — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 472; European intellectuals saw postwar Germany as preferable to America for intellectual life; American intellectual life selectively welcomed refugee thinkers matching its own spirit. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 887
Broader Connections
- Occupation-era French intellectuals cultivated deliberate rudeness toward Germans as patriotic resistance
#contradicts(0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 472 - European intellectuals saw postwar Germany as preferable to America for intellectual life
#corroborates(0.80) - American intellectual life selectively welcomed refugee thinkers matching its own spirit.
#corroborates(0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 887