The special issue of the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal dedicated to the New School centennial is finally out! (Actually GFPJ's very title enshrines history: the Graduate Faculty of Social and Political Science was the name of philosophy's home from 1934 to 2001, before that division poached the name of the original 1919 New School for Social Research in one of our renaming blitzes, generating perpetual confusion about the school's origins.)It's a slightly random but fun mix of unpublished essays, letters, lecture notes and a few new essays. (I wrote the preface for the one republished work, by Horace Kallen.) I was delighted to learn from the editor's introduction that The cover design for this issue is based on a cover that was used by the GFPJ during the early 1980s. The design was by Québécois painter Louis Comtois, who was also Reiner Schürmann’s partner. Schürmann was one of the philosophy department's stars in the 1970s and 1980s, a Heideggerian ex-Dominican priest who wrote in French and lectured on medieval philosophy; he was lost to AIDS, the whole department apparently tending to him in his illness.
