Intellectuals in Exile: Refugee Scholars and the New School for Social Research

by Claus-Dieter Krohn, Rita Kimber (Translator), Robert Kimber (Translator), Arthur J. Vidich (Foreword by)

Overview

This book presents an intellectual history of that remarkable group of social and political scientists, documenting their experiences and their influence on both European and American thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870238741
Publisher:	University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date:	11/10/1993
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	1,391,201
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.03(h) x 0.79(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

This careful and thorough piece of intellectual history explores the work and influence of emigre social scientists, mainly economists, who left Germany after 1933 and settled at the New School in New York City. Among the 184 emigres were Rudolf Arnheim, Emil Lederer and Hans Speier. The author, who teaches modern history at the University of Luneberg in Germany, traces the pattern of the German intellectual diaspora and explains how xenophobia and anti-Semitism kept some American universities from welcoming such scholars. He describes how emigres brought laissez-faire Austrian neo-classical theories as well as more youthful reformist ideas. New School director Alvin Johnson sought to both express the school's internationalism and progressivism and also to build his fledgling institution. There, economists like Gerhard Colm critiqued Keynesian theory and influenced New Deal policy. Scholars such as Arnold Brecht and Albert Salomon also took on issues of administrative law, Weberian sociology and the sources of fascism . Krohn concludes that the impact of these emigre scholars was greater than has been previously acknowledged. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

An intellectual history of the New School for Social Research, which was established in the 1930s to help European scholars who had fled to the US to escape the Third Reich. Explores the ideas the social scientists brought from Europe, their interactions with American scholars, funding, and other aspects. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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