{"product_id":"a-light-in-dark-times-9780231180191","title":"A Light in Dark Times","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJudith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fascinating and compellingly readable narrative, Judith Friedlander tells the multilayered story of an institution founded in moral passion and dedicated to the nurture of intellectual life in its most humane and democratic forms. Full of vivid personalities and international drama, \u003ci\u003eA Light in Dark Times\u003c\/i\u003e is an engrossing history of an exceptional university, an inspiring account of free thought rescued from the twentieth century’s most repressive regimes—and a book that speaks eloquently to our own turbulent times. -- Eva Hoffman, author of \u003ci\u003eExit Into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAppassionata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFriedlander's book expertly reveals how the New School emerged and gracefully interlaces the institutional story with the lives of the individuals who fostered the school’s development. The work raises questions about the defense of academic freedom; the complexities of rescuing refugees from political and religious persecution; and the tensions of an institution that, on the one hand, adhered to principles of free intellectual exchanges and, on the other, relied on its faculty to recruit colleagues who promoted discordant issues and methods. -- Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003eJudith Friedlander’s \u003ci\u003eA Light in Dark Times\u003c\/i\u003e is a major, well-researched work which explores the emergence, evolution, and contribution of the New School as a catalyst of ideas. The book highlights the university’s role in educating generations of students, as well as serving as a home for noted scholars and intellectuals. Friedlander’s work does justice to the New School’s legacy and reminds us that throughout history ideas and ideals matter and that democracy and excellence are not mutually exclusive. This is a must-read. -- Vartan Gregorian, former president, Carnegie Corporation of New York\u003cbr\u003eThe New School bloomed over the course of the twentieth century into a resonant, influential cultural institution for both the city and the country, gathering for its faculty distinguished scholars, writers, and artists from all over the world. Judith Friedlander has written a compelling account of its origins, its struggles, its  triumphs, and particularly the vital role it played in attracting German émigré professors seeking to escape the Nazis. A rich and textured history. -- Michael Rosenthal, author of \u003ci\u003eNicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJudith Friedlander’s history of the New School is at once deeply researched and a delight to read. She traces the New School’s growth and captures the intellectual, scholarly, and political motivations of the individuals who shaped it:  the founders, John Dewey and Charles Beard, who saw higher education as linked to public life; its longtime president Alvin Johnson, who rescued scholars from Europe in the Nazi era; and Jonathan Fanton, who brought Eastern European scholars to the New School as communism collapsed. The book is also a story of institutional integrity and the advancement of scholarship and democracy. Her book, remarkable in its range and the liveliness of its prose, offers an outstanding history of a special institution. -- Thomas Bender, University Professor of the Humanities at New York University (emeritus)\u003cbr\u003eJudith Friedlander’s engaging intellectual history of the New School. . . . [offers] us a portrait of how an institution takes shape, a vision for thinking about how universities can fail, and some ideas about how they might be renewed amid the chaos of our current moment. This work will surely be of interest to anyone who is committed to academic freedom and democratic education. -- Samantha Hill * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003eFormidable in its endeavor and broad in its scope and marches with purpose. * International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society *\u003cbr\u003e[Friedlander] recounts the whole saga with well-chosen excerpts....punctuated by occasional anecdotes that convey the human side of some of the characters in this remarkable tale. * Academe *\u003cbr\u003e[An] excellent institutional history. * Gotham Blog *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: In the Archives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: A School of Social Research\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The First Founding Moment\u003cbr\u003e2. Alvin Johnson and \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eColumbia University\u003cbr\u003e4. The Idea Takes Shape\u003cbr\u003e5. The New School Opens\u003cbr\u003e6. Alvin Johnson Takes Over\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Universities in Exile\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. The Founding of the German University in Exile\u003cbr\u003e8. The University in Exile Opens\u003cbr\u003e9. Ring the Alarm\u003cbr\u003e10. Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Middle Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. Alvin Johnson Retires\u003cbr\u003e12. The Red Scare\u003cbr\u003e13. The Orozco Mural\u003cbr\u003e14. “The New School Really Isn’t News Any Longer”\u003cbr\u003e15. “Save the School”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: “Between Past and Future”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16. The “New” New School\u003cbr\u003e17. Three Doctoral Programs at Risk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Renewing the Legacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18. Rebuilding the Graduate Faculty\u003cbr\u003e19. Rekindling the Spirit\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Extending the Legacy\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A: Extended Notes and Commentary for Chapter 6\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B: Extended Notes and Commentary for Chapter 7\u003cbr\u003eAppendix C: Extended Notes and Commentary for Chapter 9\u003cbr\u003eAppendix D: Extended Notes and Commentary for Chapter 18\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400312693079,"sku":"9780231180191","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231180191.jpg?v=1730470359","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-light-in-dark-times-9780231180191","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}