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ments of them have become available in recent years. In addition, for reasons
unknown, some major intellectual currents that also came
to
us from abroad,
such as Gestalt psychology, or the work of Hayek apd Popper, are not dealt
with at all so that the book has a fragmentary character. As a result, it does
not have the breadth of Hughes's earlier brilliant synthesis of European
fin de siecie
thought,
Consciousness and Society.
But perhaps I mistake
Hughes's intentions and take for the main course what was meant as an
appetizer. Readers unfamiliar with the social thought of the refugee intel–
lectuals may find here perceptive sketches of some representative figures
which might whet their appetite for more searching analyses. Some of
Hughes's students, notably Martin Jay, have under his guidance already
presented detailed discussions of some of the figures he treats here; other
figures still await more extended treatment. In the meantime Hughes has
opened a vein which is likely
to
provide valuable ore for future historians
of intellectual life in America.
LEWISCOSER
THE REALITY OF EVIL
THE SURVIVOR: AN ANATOMY OF LIFE IN THE DEATH CAMPS.
By Ter·
rence Des Pres. Oxford University Press. $10.00.
THE HOLOCAUST AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION.
By Lawrence
L.
Langer. Yale University Press. $12 .50.
All friends shall taste
The wages of their virtue, and all foes
The cup of their deserving.
Albany says this at the end of
King Lear,
after Lear himself has
entered with his daughter dead, and I mention it here because it seems
to
me a perfect example of the mentality of the survivor. Next to Albany on the
stage the King is breaking, a kind of black light pours from him, but the
Duke, who will survive, cannot see it. He is too busy making up his little
moral jingle, reconstructing a universe in which the bad are punished and
