Thomas Me y e r, Formal aspects of „the nature of politics and society”. An analysis of the „university in exile”, 1933–1945
Thomas Me y e r, Formal aspects of „the nature of politics and society”. An analysis of the „university in exile”, 1933–1945

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this text is to gain a new perspective on the „University in Exile” estab-lished 1933 at New School for Social Research (New York) to endow some of Europe’s most brilliant social scientists of the epoch a safe area of intellectual discourse beyond the oppressions of the Fascist regimes in their native countries. The authors analyse the distribution and characteristics of the members’ power to shape faculty’s collective conduct concerning the quest for the nature of politics and society. The method applied is a cluster analysis factoring in the dimensions of occupational continuity, internal visi-bility, functional representation and interfacultative participation.

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