Intellectuals in exile
Subtitle: refugee scholars and the New School for Social Research
By: Claus-Dieter Krohn ; translated by Rita and Robert Kimber ; foreword by Arthur J. Vidich.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.) -- History.; New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.) -- Faculty.; Brain drain -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; Social scientists -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; Economists -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; German Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Description: In the 1930s, with the rise of the Third Reich, thousands of European intellectuals sought refuge in the United States. Through the tireless efforts of Alvin Johnson, director of the New School for Social Research, nearly two hundred of these scholars came to be affiliated with the University in Exile, later known as the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. 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.

Johnson was one of the first to recognize the need for action to prevent Hitler's destruction of the German intellectual tradition. He sought out many of the best European scholars of the day and brought them to the newly created University in Exile in New York. There, the refugees framed as intellectual problems the social and political experiences that had so disrupted their lives and careers. They examined the cultural roots of fascism, the bureaucratization of Western societies, and the prerequisites for a historically and morally informed social science. In the field of economics, the exiles developed theoretical concepts and models that came to be instrumental in the formation of New Deal policies and that remain relevant today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-244) and index.
Translation of: Wissenschaft im Exil.