Contents

  • Histories

    Essays on periods and aspects of New School history, partial and evolving.

  • People

    Profiles of people who have passed through the New School. Entries focus on their time at the school.

  • Reader

    Readings, artworks, and materials by and about people associated with the school, including faculty, staff, and students.

  • Reflections & Analysis

    Podcasts, scholarly commentary, and opinion.

About

This website seeks to explore and interrogate the past at a school dedicated to the new. Contributions by students, staff, faculty, alumni, and researchers.

Editors
Julia L. Foulkes, Professor of History
Mark Larrimore, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Wendy Scheir, Director, New School Archives and Special Collections

Connections
The New School Archives Digital Collections from the Archives Public Seminar The New School

Contact
[email protected]

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Category: Activism

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Eric Hobsbawm

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Eric Hobsbawm was a British Marxist Historian who taught at the New School of Social Research. You can read about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Eric Hobsbawm, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.

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Eric Hobsbawm, Marxism and social history

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" Eric Hobsbawm’s death last year robbed us of the last of that generation of Marxist scholars who did so much to transform the writing of history in the 1950s and 1960s – and in Hobsbawm’s case into the first decade of this century. There have been many tributes. "

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The Islamic City-Historic Myth, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance

" One of the most striking features of the cities of the Middle East and North Africa, certainly during medieval times but to some extent persisting feebly to this day in the older residential quarters, is its subdivision into smaller quarters whose approximate boundaries remain relatively constant over time and whose names continue to be employed as important referential terms, even when they do not appear on modern markers of street names, etc. "

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The Present Human Condition

" What kind of man, then, does our society need in order to function smoothly? It needs men who co-operate easily in large groups, who want to consume more and more, and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. "

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The IRP’s Collaboration with the New School

The diverse and experienced members of the IRP have backgrounds in the sciences, arts, business, academia, law and more. They support objectives of the New School through a variety of volunteer endeavors. This energetic, committed group reaches beyond the IRP’s core of developing and participating in the 30+ Study Groups each semester. IRP members enthusiastically […]