Richard Wolin
Encyclopedia
Richard Wolin is an intellectual historian.
He is Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center
, where he has worked since 2000. He is known for a series of Platonic attacks on postmodernism
in general, and on particular contributors to and sources of its late twentieth century formulation, including Nietzsche and Heidegger.
Before going to CUNY, he was a professor at Rice University
in Houston, Texas. He currently resides in Maplewood, New Jersey
and has three children.
He is Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center
CUNY Graduate Center
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York brings together graduate education, advanced research, and public programming to midtown Manhattan hosting 4,600 students, 33 doctoral programs, 7 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes...
, where he has worked since 2000. He is known for a series of Platonic attacks on postmodernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...
in general, and on particular contributors to and sources of its late twentieth century formulation, including Nietzsche and Heidegger.
Before going to CUNY, he was a professor at Rice University
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
in Houston, Texas. He currently resides in Maplewood, New Jersey
Maplewood, New Jersey
Maplewood is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 23,867.-History:...
and has three children.
Books
- Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption. (1982)
- The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (1990)
- The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader. Editor (1991)
- The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism (1992)
- Karl Löwith, Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism. (1995) editor).
- Labyrinths: Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas.(1995)
- Heidegger's Children: Philosophy, Anti-Semitism, and German-Jewish Identity (2001) also as Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse
- The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism (2004)
- Herbert Marcuse, Heideggerian Marxism Co-Editor (2005).
- The Frankfurt School Revisited. (2006).
- The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s.(2010).
Articles
- TelosTELOS (journal)Telos is an academic journal published in the United States. It was founded in May 1968 to provide the New Left with a coherent theoretical perspective. It sought to expand the Husserlian diagnosis of "the crisis of European sciences" to prefigure a particular program of social reconstruction...
41, The De-Aestheticization of Art: On Adorno's Aesthetische Theorie. New York: Telos Press Ltd., Fall 1979. (Telos Press). - Telos 43, An Aesthetic of Redemption: Benjamin's Path to Trauerspiel. New York: Telos Press Ltd., Spring 1980. (Telos Press).
- Telos 53, The Benjamin-Congress: Frankfurt (July 13, 1982). New York: Telos Press Ltd., Fall 1982. (Telos Press).
- Telos 62, Introduction. New York: Telos Press Ltd., Winter 1984-1985. (Telos Press).
- Telos 62, Modernism vs. Postmodernism. New York: Telos Press Ltd., Winter 1984-1985. (Telos Press).
- Telos 63, The Bankruptcy of Left-Wing Kulturkritik: The "After the Avant-Garde" Conference. New York: Telos Press Ltd., Spring 1985. (Telos Press).
- Telos 64, Against Adjustment. New York: Telos Press Ltd., Fall 1985. (Telos Press).
- Telos 66, Leonetti-Deutscher-Rizzi Correspondence; False Criteria: The New Criterion or the Cultural Politics of Neo-Conservatism. New York: Telos Press Ltd., Winter 1985-1986. (Telos Press).
- Telos 67, Foucault's Aesthetic Decisionism. New York: Telos Press Ltd., Spring 1987. (Telos Press).
- "Paul Ricoeur as Another: how a great philosopher wrestled with his younger self", The Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty, staff members and administrators....
, October 14, 2005