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

Personal reminiscence, scholarly commentary, and opinion.

Projects

In the Archives

Workers from The New School Archives reflect on issues, debates, conundrums and fascinations that emerge while collecting, preserving, organizing and describing the archives.
Offense & Dissent: Image, Conflict, Belonging

This 2014 exhibition investigated three episodes when art roused protest at the New School.

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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Erich Fromm was a German-American social psychologist and psychoanalyst, who was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His work challenged the theories of Sigmund Freud, [1] and brought psychoanalysis to bear on sociological and political questions. Fromm was born in 1900 in Frankfurt to Jewish parents. He studied at the University of Heidelberg […]