École libre des hautes études

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The École Libre des Hautes Études (lit. 'Free School for Advanced Studies') was a "university-in-exile" for French academics in

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

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

  • École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

References

  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.

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