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  Description of An Average Life

  Heinrich Blücher

  This short autobiographical sketch was cited by Arendt biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl in her portrait of Blücher. (See Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, chapter 4, footnote 11, p. 507.) “Description of an Average Life” was discovered among Hannah Arendt's private papers and is translated from German by Kathrin Nussbaumer.

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  Hannah Arendt and her Socrates

  Wolfgang Heuer

  Wolfgang Heuer’s biographical sketch of Blücher, which examines his intellectual relationship with Hannah Arendt.

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  Finding Aid for Heinrich Blücher Collection

  Bard College

  Bard College Archives & Special Collections Finding Aid for the Heinrich Blücher Collection

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  Heinrich Blücher Project

  Universität Leipzig

  Website about Heinrich Bluecher (1899-1970) who was an exceptional, admired and controversial teacher at his places of work, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson and the New School of Social Research in New York City. For the first time, this website presents the complete lecture series »Sources of Creative Power«, which he gave at the New School in 1953/54, and which has been recorded on audiotapes by his students. Podcasts introduce his lectures by focusing on the main figures Bluecher talked about and by which he developed his own philosophical approach in a »troubled time of a troubled man.«

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  Brief History and Introduction to Blücher Archive

  Jeffrey Katz

  The following introduction and brief history was written by Jeff Katz, former Director of Bard College Libraries (retired 2018), at the first launch of the Blücher Archive in 2006. The letter he references from Alexander Bazelow to Heinrich Blücher is attached to this submission as supplemental materials.

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  Heinrich Blücher - A Profile

  Eugenio Villicana

  An article about Blücher’s intellectual contribution to Bard College by Eugenio Villicana from the Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni Magazine, March 1960.

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  Report on the Commmon Course

  Bard College

  This "Report on the Common Course" dated April 30 1954 sourced from the Bard College Archives documents the origins, design, and initial implementation of Bard College’s Common Course for freshmen, inaugurated in the 1952–53 academic year. The course emerged from President Case’s 1952 proposal for curricular innovation, informed by the Newman Committee’s finding that the college community lacked shared intellectual ground. After extensive faculty debate, a course emphasizing values, student interests, and fundamental human capacities was approved, with a director appointed to develop it collaboratively across divisions. Heinrich Blücher, named director, assembled an interdisciplinary staff and organized the course around the study of nine major original thinkers, each exemplifying a core creative human capacity. The course combined common lectures and materials with small seminars that evolved in response to student interests. Ongoing staff meetings and seminar visits supported coordination and evaluation, with the course subject to formal review by the Policy Committee at year’s end.