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Leo Strauss was a twentieth-century German Jewish émigré to the United States whose intellectual corpus spans ancient, medieval and modern political philosophy and includes, among others, studies of Plato, Maimonides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Nietzsche. Strauss wrote mainly as a historian of philosophy and most of his writings take the form of commentaries on important […]
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Jacques Maritain (b. November 18, 1882, Paris; d. April 28, 1973 Toulouse) was a noted Christian humanist philosopher and convert to Roman Catholicism. Maritain, raised Protestant, and his Jewish wife, Raissa Oumansov, converted jointly in 1906, two years after their marriage in 1904. Later, Maritain studied St. Thomas Aquinas, on whom, along with Aristotle, much […]
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Horace Kallen was a founding member of The New School, where he taught philosophy. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Horace Kallen, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions. For more in the New School Archives on, see here.
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Many at The New School would agree that it is difficult to graduate from the university without hearing the name Hannah Arendt. Working primarily at the intersection of contemporary politics and philosophy, Arendt’s radical ideas and writings inspired–and continue to inspire–both widespread admiration and controversy in academic and popular circles alike. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Arendt and […]
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Francesca Cernia Slovin (March 14, 1952-April 2, 2017) taught at The New School from Spring 1996 to Fall 2000, and once again in Fall 2003. Her courses focused on the tension between emotion and reason in philosophy, the importance of imagination in expressing philosophical ideas, philosophers as agents of social change, and misogyny as reflected […]
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Dorion Cairns (1901- 1973) was apart of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in the 1950’s. You can read about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Dorion Cairns, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" In a considerable number of countries which, for about a hundred years, have enjoyed a practically complete freedom of public discussion... "
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" The title of my paper refers intentionally to that of a Symposium held in December, 1952, at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association. "
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" In his address at the 200th convocation of the University of Chicago, June 11, 1940, President Hutchins invited American youth to reexamine the principles which make life worth living. "