Richard Wolin (born 1952) is an American

intellectual historian Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual hist ...

who writes on 20th Century European philosophy, particularly German philosopher

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th centu ...

and the group of thinkers known collectively as the

Frankfurt School The Frankfurt School (german: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and critical philosophy associated with the Institute for Social Research, at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1929. Founded in the Weimar Republic (1918–1933), dur ...

Life

Wolin graduated B.A. at

Reed College Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at ...

, and M.A. and Ph.D. at

York University, Toronto York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,000 faculty and staf ...

. He then worked at Reed College and

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

. Since 2000, he has been Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at the

CUNY Graduate Center The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and post-graduate university in New York City. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the C ...

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Works

Books

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Walter Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish ...

: 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

, Existentialism, Poststructuralism'' (1992) *'' Karl Löwith, Martin Heidegger and European

Nihilism Nihilism (; ) is a philosophy, or family of views within philosophy, that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as objective truth, knowledge, morality, values, or meaning. The term was popularized by I ...

''. (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 Hannah Arendt (, , ; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. Arendt was born ...

, Karl Löwith,

Hans Jonas Hans Jonas (; ; 10 May 1903 – 5 February 1993) was a German-born American Jewish philosopher, from 1955 to 1976 the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Biography Jonas was born ...

, and

Herbert Marcuse Herbert Marcuse (; ; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University ...

'' *''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 The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goa ...

, and the Legacy of the 1960s''.(2010).

Articles

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Telos Telos (; ) is a term used by philosopher Aristotle to refer to the final cause of a natural organ or entity, or of a work of human art. Intentional actualization of potential or inherent purpose,"Telos.''Philosophy Terms'' Retrieved 3 May 2020. ...

'' 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
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Paul Ricoeur as Another: how a great philosopher wrestled with his younger self
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The Chronicle of Higher Education ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and student affairs professionals (staff members and administrators). A subscription is required to re ...

'', October 14, 2005

References

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