Category: University in Exile
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Origins of the Rural Social Structure
" In Germany at the end of the First World War agricultural land was owned prevailingly by powerful squires in the east and by peasants in the south and west, with only a few large estates scattered in the center, south, and west. "
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Alvin Johnson, Deliver Us from Dogma
Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. If someone told you that students from the New School are very open-minded, that would not be surprising. Obviously, the University […]
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Italian Refugee Scholars at The New School: A Collective Profile
Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. This blog post was written in response to information gathering resulting from the visit of an international researcher. Here in the […]
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Hans Simons
Hans Simons may best be known as a successful president of the New School rather than as a scholar. But his scholarly and administrative work in politics was typical of many of the refugee scholars who formed the University in Exile. Born on July 1, 1893 in Velbert, Rhine Province, Germany, Hans Simons grew up […]
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Why The New School?: On the École Libre des Hautes Études
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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The Archives of Edmund Husserl in the United States
By the late 1930s, the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research was a center for the study of Husserlian phenomenology in United States. This was mainly due to the presence of refugee scholars Felix Kaufmann and Alfred Schutz, and then the scholars Dorion Cairns and Aron Gurwitsch […]
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Julien Studley
Julien Studley has been a crucial benefactor and leader at the New School for the last thirty years. Like many refugee scholars who found a home at the New School, Studley left Europe as a young man and eventually found a home here as well. The New School created this tribute about him and his impact on […]
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University in Exile
Alvin Johnson was the president of the New York New School for Social Research when, in 1933, he responded with alacrity to the growing crisis in Europe. The previous year, Alvin Johnson had traveled to Europe and had witnessed a potential need for a haven for academics and scholars. Johnson had been in frequent correspondence […]
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Hans Speier
Hans Speier was a sociologist and founder of the University in Exile. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Hans Speier, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions. For more in the New School Archives on Hans Speier, see the New School faculty vertical files […]