Free-Market Socialists : : European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918-1968.
"The Hungarian artist-designer László Moholy-Nagy, the Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, and his fellow Viennese Victor Gruen-an architect and urban planner-made careers in different fields. Yet they shared common socialist politics, Jewish backgrounds, and experience as refugees from the...
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Malherek, Joseph. Free-Market Socialists : European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918-1968. 1st ed. Central European University Press 2022 Budapest : Central European University Press, 2022. ©2022. 1 online resource (408 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Unrestricted online access star Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy New republics and new ideas -- Exile and underground -- New Deal in a new country -- Making postwar America. "The Hungarian artist-designer László Moholy-Nagy, the Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, and his fellow Viennese Victor Gruen-an architect and urban planner-made careers in different fields. Yet they shared common socialist politics, Jewish backgrounds, and experience as refugees from the Nazis. This book tells the story of their intellectual migration from Central Europe to the United States, beginning with the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, and moving through the heady years of newly independent social-democratic republics before the descent into fascism. It follows their experience of exile and adaptation in a new country, and culminates with a surprising outcome of socialist thinking: the opening of the first fully enclosed, air-conditioned suburban shopping center in the United States. Although the American culture they encountered ostensibly celebrated entrepreneurial individualism and capitalistic "free enterprise," Moholy-Nagy, Lazarsfeld, and Gruen arrived at a time of the progressive economic reforms of the New Deal and an extraordinary open-mindedness about social democracy. This period of unprecedented economic experimentation nurtured a business climate that, for the most part, did not stifle the emigres' socialist idealism but rather channeled it as the source of creative solutions to the practical problems of industrial design, urban planning, and consumer behavior. Based on a vast array of original sources, Malherek interweaves the biographies of these three remarkable personalities and those of their wives, colleagues, and friends with whom they collaborated on innovative projects that would shape the material environment and consumer culture of their adopted home. The result is a narrative of immigration and adaptation that challenges the crude binary of capitalism and socialism with a story of creative economic hybridization"-- Provided by publisher. English Capitalism United States. Socialism United States. United States Intellectual life 20th century. United States Social conditions. Gruen, Victor, 1903-1980. Lazarsfeld, Paul F., 1901-1976. Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946. capitalism, socialism, immigration, business, design Print version: Malherek, Joseph Free-Market Socialists Budapest : Central European University Press,c2022 9789633864470 |
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