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Talk given at the symposium on “Memories and Politics of Exile,” Parsons Paris, 6 October 2016 The New School has had a unique role in the history of refuge for intellectual exiles. Much of our sense of ourselves comes from the prescient action Alvin Johnson took in April 1933 to provide a haven for intellectuals […]
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" It has long been the fashion to invoke languages which lack the terms for expressing such a concept as ‘tree’ or ‘animal’, even though they contain all the words necessary for a detailed inventory of species and varieties. "
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" To avoid misunderstanding, I should note at once that my point of view is here not that of the mere logic of ideas and doctrines, but that of the concrete logic of the events of history. "
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" It seems beyond question that the documents collected by Professor Laura Hibbard Loomis and Professor Roger Loomis... "
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" France, the nation having the second largest colonial empire in the world, is the country bearing the largest responsibility in Africa. "