Nancy Fraser

female, 62 years old
NewSchoolforSocialResearch, Feminist, post-structuralism, New School University, Scholar, Critical theory
Nancy Fraser (born 20 May 1947) is a critical theorist, currently the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at the New...
Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley

male, 49 years old
New School University, philosophy, British, philosopher, deconstruction, Academic of the University of Essex…NewSchoolforSocialResearch, social, new school
Simon Critchley (born February 27, 1960) is an influential British philosopher, working in continental philosophy, history of philosophy,...
Robert Heilbroner

Robert Heilbroner

male, deceased (2005)
historian of economic thought, Adolf Lowe, Economist, Harvard University alumni, United States Army, Historian of the United States…NewSchoolforSocialResearch, new school, New York Council
Robert L. Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 - January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty...

Alfred Schütz

male, deceased (1959)
Sociologist, phenomenology, social science, philosopher, Austrian, Austrian-American…NewSchoolforSocialResearch, Social Sciences, The meaningful construction of the social world, The phenomenology of the social world
Alfred Schütz was a philosopher and sociologist. He was born in Austria, studied law in Vienna, worked as an international businessperson for R...
Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow

male, deceased (1927)
University of California, San Diego, Fluxus, California Institute Of The Arts, environment, NewSchoolforSocialResearch, assemblagist…High School of Music and Art, Getty Research Institute, New York University, State University of New York, Hofmann School
Allan Kaprow studied at New York University (art at the undergraduate level, philosophy at the graduate) and received his MA from Columbia in art...
George Brecht

George Brecht

male, 85 years old
NewSchoolforSocialResearch, Rutgers University, Yam Festival, Event Scores, George MacDiarmid, Fluxus at Rutgers University
George Brecht (born George MacDiarmid, Halfway, Oregon, United States 1924) is a minimalist artist and composer (although not in the conventional...
Seyla Benhabib

Seyla Benhabib

female, 59 years old
Harvard University, Yale, pluralism, SUNY Stony Brook, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NewSchoolforSocialResearch
Seyla Benhabib (born 1950, Istanbul) is a Turkish professor of political science and philosophy at Yale and director of the program in Ethics,...
Max Wertheimer

Max Wertheimer

male, deceased (1943)
tachistoscope, Charles University alumni, holistic, perception, Jewish person, gestalt psychology…NewSchoolforSocialResearch
Max Wertheimer was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology. Wertheimer studied law for more than two years, but decided then to change to...

James Harvey Robinson

male, deceased (1936)
University of Pennsylvania, NewSchoolforSocialResearch, American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Historical Association, Historian of Europe, American
James Harvey Robinson was an American historian. Robinson was born Bloomington, Illinois. He taught history at the University of Pennsylvania...