Richard Wolin
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He is Distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he has worked since 2000. He is known for a series of 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.
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Works
- Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption. (1982)
- The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (1990)
- The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader.(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)
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