Friedlander A Light in Dark Times

The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54257-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Judith Friedlander reconstructs the history of the New School in the context of ongoing debates over academic freedom, intellectual dissidents, and democratic education. She tells a dramatic story of academic, political, and financial struggle through brief sketches of New School administrators, faculty members, trustees, and students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedlander, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: In the Archives
Part I: A School of Social Research
1. The First Founding Moment
2. Alvin Johnson and The New Republic
3. Columbia University
4. The Idea Takes Shape
5. The New School Opens
6. Alvin Johnson Takes Over
Part II: The Universities in Exile
7. The Founding of the German University in Exile
8. The University in Exile Opens
9. Ring the Alarm
10. Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes
Part III: The Middle Years
11. Alvin Johnson Retires
12. The Red Scare
13. The Orozco Mural
14. “The New School Really Isn’t News Any Longer”
15. “Save the School”
Part IV: “Between Past and Future”
16. The “New” New School
17. Three Doctoral Programs at Risk
Part V: Renewing the Legacy
18. Rebuilding the Graduate Faculty
19. Rekindling the Spirit
Epilogue: Extending the Legacy
Appendix A: Extended Notes and Commentary for Chapter 6
Appendix B: Extended Notes and Commentary for Chapter 7
Appendix C: Extended Notes and Commentary for Chapter 9
Appendix D: Extended Notes and Commentary for Chapter 18
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Friedlander served from 1993 to 2000 as dean of the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research, where she held the Walter A. Eberstadt Chair of Anthropology. She also served as dean and professor at SUNY Purchase and Hunter College (CUNY), from which she retired in 2017. Her books include Being Indian in Hueyapan and Vilna on the Seine.