The study of intellectual exile: a paradigm -- Self-knowledge and sociology: Nina Rubinstein's exile studies -- A German subject to recall: Hans Mayer as internationalist, cosmopolitan, outsider and/or exile -- Exile as process: the case of Franz L. Neumann -- The symbolic uses of exile: Erich Kahler at Ohio State -- First letters: the liquidation of exile? -- The second wave: an autobiographical exercise.