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David Kettler was born 1930 in Leipzig and emigrated to the United States in 1940.  He  is Research Professor at Bard College (New York) and Professor Emeritus in Political Studies and Cultural Studies at Trent University (Ontario).  Recent book publications include Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism (with Volker Meja) (Transaction, 1995), Domestic Regimes, the Rule of Law, and Democratic Social Change (Galda + Wilch, 2001), Adam Ferguson: Social and Political Thought (Transaction, 2004) and Karl Mannheim's Sociology as Political Education (Transaction, 2002) (with Colin Loader), as well as four edited volumes arising out of the “Contested Legacies” project: Contested Legacies: The German-Speaking Intellectual and Cultural

Emigration to the United States and United Kingdom, 1933-45 (Galda +Wilch, 2002), Political Theory and the Hitler Regime (special issue of European Journal of Political Theory) (with Tom Wheatland), Exile, Science and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Intellectual Emigres. (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005) (with Gerhard Lauer), and Limits of Exile (Special Issue of the Journal of the Interdisciplinary Crossroads, 2006) (with Zvi Ben-Dor).  His monograph on “Mannheim and Lukács in the Revolutions of 1918-19.” published in German, English, and Japanese in the late 1960s, first opened up an important area of study to scholars outside of the harshly controlled Hungarian-language sphere.  His intellectual contacts with and interest in the vicissitudes of Hungarian political intellectuals have been continuous since that time.

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