Posted in In the Archives
This blog post was written in response to information gathering resulting from the visit of an international researcher. Here in the New School Archives and Special Collections, we assist researchers from around the world on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Many of the researchers who consult the records of the Graduate Faculty (what was […]
Posted in PEOPLE
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 […]
Posted in REFLECTIONS & ANALYSIS
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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Thorstein Veblen’s educational philosophy and book The Higher Learning in America deeply influenced the unique character of the New School for Social Research in the first discussions about creating an adult education institution in 1918. Veblen, the son of poor Norwegian farmers, was born in 1857 in Wisconsin. At age 17, he enrolled in Carleton […]
Posted in HISTORIES
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 […]
Posted in HISTORIES
The New School has its well-known triumphs, from the rescue of persecuted scholars that formed the University in Exile to its groundbreaking courses in film, psychoanalysis, and urban studies. But, as with most institutions, there is little attention to more controversial decisions. Starting September 30, 2014, there is a grand display of one of them. […]
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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 […]
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New School professor Aristide R. Zolberg, one of the world’s leading voices on the politics, history, and ethics of immigration, (…) served as Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Politics and University in Exile Professor Emeritus at The New School for Social Research. A distinguished political scientist and a preeminent scholar of comparative politics, the history […]
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Alvin Saunders Johnson (December 18, 1874 – June 7, 1971) was an American economist and a co-founder and first director of The New School. Alvin Johnson was born near Homer, Nebraska. He was educated at the University of Nebraska and Columbia (Ph.D., 1902). Afterwards, he was employed in various positions at Columbia, the University of […]
Posted in READER
" During the 1930s, Hans Speier, Hans Staudinger, Frieda Wunderlich, Max Ascoli, and Max Wertheimer, each reflected on the causes of fascism and each agreed with Lederer that a socialist democracy untempered by libertarian limitations was as likely to lead to a fascist counterrevolution. "