École_libre_des_hautes_études

École libre des hautes études

École libre des hautes études

World War II-era expatriate school

The École Libre des Hautes Études (lit. 'Free School for Advanced Studies') was a "university-in-exile" for French academics in New York during the Second World War. It was chartered by the French (the Free French) and Belgian governments-in-exile and located at the New School for Social Research. Its founders included Jean Wahl, Jacques Maritain, and Gustave Cohen, and it was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.[1]

The philosopher Jacques Maritain, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, historian Elias Bickerman, and linguist Roman Jakobson all taught at the École Libre.

According to Louis Menand, in "The Free World (p. 203)" it was started in 1942 through the efforts of Alvin Johnson, co-founder and director of the New School.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Chaubet, F.; Loyer, E. (2000). "The Ecole-Libre-des-Hautes-Etudes in New York: exile and intellectual resistance (1942-1946)". Revue historique: 939–972.

Sources

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