Richard Wolin

Richard Wolin
The author during a recent event at CUNY Graduate Center.
Born	(1952-09-02) September 2, 1952 Glenview, Illinois
Residence	Maplewood, New Jersey
Citizenship	American
Fields	Intellectual history, political philosophy, cultural theory
Institutions	The Graduate Center, CUNY
Alma mater	Reed College
Influences	Jurgen Habermas
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Richard Wolin (born 1952) is an intellectual historian.

Life

Wolin graduated B.A. at Reed College, and M.A. and Ph.D. at York University, Toronto. He then held positions at Reed College and Rice University.^[1] He is now Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center,^[2] where he has worked since 2000.^[3] He is known for a series of Platonic attacks on postmodernism in general and what he alleges as its historical intellectual relationship to fascism, as well as criticising particular contributors to and sources of the late twentieth century formulation of postmodern thought, including Nietzsche, Heidegger and Bataille.

Works

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

• Telos 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 Education, October 14, 2005

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