A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile

by Judith Friedlander

Book Overview

The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education--providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call "the continuing education of the educated." By the mid-1920s, the New School had become the place to go to hear leading figures lecture on politics and the arts and recent developments in new fields of inquiry, such as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231180195
• ISBN13: 9780231180191
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"