Richard Wolin
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"I have selected an early painting from Giorgio de Chirico’s so-called metaphysical period, “The Song of Love,” as The Seduction of Unreason’s graphic template. In many respects, the painting’s imagery is germane to the theme implied by my title: that “unreason” has an uncanny power to fascinate and seduce."--The Seduction of Unreason (2004) by Richard Wolin |
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Richard Wolin (born 1952) is an American intellectual historian. He is noted for his work on 20th Century European philosophy, particularly German philosopher Martin Heidegger and the group of thinkers known collectively as the Frankfurt School.
He is the author of The Seduction of Unreason (2004).
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Life
Wolin graduated B.A. at Reed College, and M.A. and Ph.D. at York University, Toronto. He then worked at Reed College and Rice University. Since 2000, he is Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is known for a series of debates concerning postmodernism and has criticized particular contributors to and sources of the late-20th-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).
Pages linking Jan 2021
Friedrich Hayek, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Postmodernism, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Intellectual, Walter Benjamin, Jean Baudrillard, Carl Schmitt, Counter-Enlightenment, Karl Löwith, Being and Time, Ted Honderich, Marvin Harris, Left-wing fascism, Cultural critic, Michael Löwy, Martin Heidegger and Nazism, Martin Jay, Nikos Salingaros, Lebensphilosophie, Introduction to Metaphysics (Heidegger book), Otto Pöggeler, The Tears of the White Man, The Tyranny of Guilt
