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

    Personal reminiscence, 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]

Link here to the Style Guide for the Histories of The New School website This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

In what has been said of the evolution of the vicarious leisure class and its differentiation from the general body of the working classes, reference has been made to a further division of labour, – that between different servant classes. One portion of the servant class, chiefly those persons whose occupation is vicarious leisure, come to undertake a new, subsidiary range of duties – the vicarious consumption of goods.

Source:

The Theory of the Leisure Class (NY: B.W. Huebsch, 1912)

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Posted on Monday April 23, 2018

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