The New School
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The New School is a university in New York City. The essential part of their nearly one hundred year history was the university under the name New School for Social Research, and New School University known. The university was founded in 1919 and consists of 8 faculties or schools. The campus of the University is located in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York.
History
The New School for Social Research was founded in 1919 by a group of intellectuals, some of whom had taught at Columbia University, to which from 1933 included the University in Exile. There were pacifists who were censored by the President of Columbia University. This led to the establishment of the new university. The founding members were Charles A. Beard, Thorstein Veblen, James Harvey Robinson, Wesley Clair Mitchell, John Dewey and Alvin Johnson.
It continues the tradition of joining the American progressive ideas with European Critical Philosophy.
From the outset, the university had close relations with Europe. Its founders, they formed in line with the German folk high school. 1933 About was established within the University a " University in Exile", which was later renamed the " Department of Political and Social Sciences ". 180 emigrants in exile found here work. After the invasion of the Wehrmacht in France in May 1940 came a number of distinguished French social scientists added, such as the anthropologist Claude Lévi- Strauss, the linguist Roman Jakobson and the political scientist Henri Bonnet. anthropologist Gregory Bateson Even the famous taught at this university. since 1970, the New School for Design is one of the Parsons to university.
Well-known German -speaking professors at this university were Emil Lederer, Hanns Eisler, Wilhelm Reich, Alfred Schütz, Albert Salomon, Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, Karl Lowith, Max Wertheimer, Rudolf Arnheim, Marie Jahoda, Arnold Brecht, Hannah Arendt, Hans José Rehfisch, Eduard Heimann, Adolph Lowe and Hans Jonas. Known students were leaders such as Dan Flavin and John Weakland. In recognition of the merits, the New School had acquired in 1933 by the inclusion of the National Socialists forced into exile scientists, 1962 was established from funds of the Federal Republic of Germany, Theodor Heuss Professorship, which, each year with a prominent ethnologist philosophers, psychologists, sociologists or economists will be filled from within the German-speaking countries. First holder of the Theodor-Heuss Professorship in 1962 /63 Helmuth Plessner philosopher.
One of the most famous institutions of the New School was established in 1940 by Erwin Piscator Dramatic Workshop. Here, among other things studied Tennessee Williams, Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis and Harry Belafonte.
The part world-famous personalities among the graduates and faculty are numerous, see List of personalities from New York University The New School.