Harry Slochower

Harry Slochower was an Austrian-born American scholar, literary critic, philosopher, and psychoanalyst. He taught German literature, comparative literature, and philosophy at Brooklyn College from 1928 to 1952, and later taught at The New School for Social Research. In 1952 he was dismissed from Brooklyn College after invoking the Fifth Amendment before a Senate committee investigating communism; the U.S. Supreme Court later ruled that he had been denied due process.