About The Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Fund
Argo Books is an activity of the Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Fund. The Fund began in the early 1950s as a line item of the Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth College, when students taping Rosenstock-Huessy’s class lectures needed to raise $1,000 for tape stock. They had started recording lectures in 1949 and stopped when Rosenstock-Huessy retired from Dartmouth in 1957. Many of these same people also took up the task of keeping Rosenstock-Huessy’s works in print, using several imprints: Beachhead, Four Wells, and Argo Books. Two 33-rpm disk sets were released, using material from the lectures recorded at Dartmouth. The current Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Fund grew out of these early initiatives and was established as a Vermont nonprofit corporation in 1976.
The Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Fund and its supporters have underwritten translations and assisted in their publication in France, Poland, and Russia. The Fund has also transcribed, published, and remastered the lectures Rosenstock-Huessy’s students had recorded. This latter effort has added 7,000 new pages to Rosenstock-Huessy’s bibliography. As a result, lectures given at Dartmouth in the 1950s and various University of California campuses in the 1960s are now being bought as book and tape sets in the United States, Germany, Holland, Poland, Canada, Australia, and Hong Kong. Currently the Fund is developing its presence on the Internet, to bring together the group of people worldwide interested in Rosenstock-Huessy.
The Fund serves the interest in Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy’s work and its programs are entirely dependent on private contributions. We welcome your support of our efforts.