Franz Baermann Steiner

Jeremy Adler is Emeritus Professor of German and Senior Research Fellow at King's College London. A specialist in comparative studies, he has published widely on Baroque literature, Romanticism, and Modernism and has written critical biographies of Goethe and Kafka. He is the editor of the collected edition of Franz Baermann Steiner's poetry.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: A Brief LifePart I: An Oriental in the West: A Brief LifeChapter 1. Beginnings: The Prague German-Jewish CommunityChapter 2. Student Days in Prague and JerusalemChapter 3. First Ethnological Studies in Vienna and London, and Fieldwork in Sub-Carpathian RutheniaChapter 4. The Impact of the Early English YearsChapter 5. The ExileChapter 6. The Oxford AnthropologistPart II: Orientpolitik, Value and Civilization: The Social ThoughtChapter 7. Beyond ‘Culture Circles’: The Field Trip RevisitedChapter 8. Zionism, Political and Cultural CritiqueChapter 9. On SlaveryChapter 10. Radcliffe-Brown and Evans-PritchardChapter 11. Labour and ValueChapter 12. Civilization and TabooChapter 13. Simmel and AristotlePart III: The Poet AnthropologistChapter 14. ConquestsChapter 15. Kafka in EnglandChapter 16. The Chief Sociological PrincipleChapter 17. Suffering and ValueChapter 18. In Search of the Universal MathesisReferencesManuscript SourcesF.B.S.’s Unpublished Writings in the Schiller Nationalmuseum, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am NeckarUnpublished Letters to and about F.B.S. and Memoirs Concerning him at the Schiller Nationalmuseum, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am NeckarF.B.S.’s Unpublished Writings and Other Sources in the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of OxfordLetters and Other Written Communications to the EditorsPublished SourcesA Selection of F.B.S.’s Published WritingsPublished Sources CitedIndex

“This book is an excellent intellectual biography of F.B. Steiner, embracing and bringing together the three distinct facets of his writings: academic, poetic, and aphoristic. Such a study was long overdue… This book will soon become essential reading for anyone interested in the history of European Anthropology… The book is clearly written, shows an impressive erudition, and manages to portray the author and his ideas in a sympathetic and engaging manner.” • João Pina-Cabral, University of Kent