Richard Wolin (; born 1952) is an American intellectual historian who writes on 20th century European philosophy, particularly German philosopher

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art ...

and the group of thinkers known collectively as the

Frankfurt School The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical theory. It is associated with the University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, Institute for Social Research founded in 1923 at the University of Frankfurt am Main ...

Life

Wolin graduated B.A. at

Reed College Reed College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon, E ...

, and M.A. and Ph.D. at York University, Toronto. He then worked at Reed College and

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. Since 2000, he has been Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center.Britannica profile
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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, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western M ...

: 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

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'' (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 (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theory, political theorists of the twentieth century. Her work ...

, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and

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

'' *''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

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, and the Legacy of the 1960s'' (2010) *''Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology'' (2023)

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 human art. ''Telos'' is the root of the modern term teleology, the study of purposiveness or of objects with a view to their aims, ...

'' 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. * “Carl Schmitt, Political Existentialism, and the Total State.” Theory and Society 19, no. 4 (1990): 389–416. http://www.jstor.org/stable/657796. * "Carl Schmitt: The Conservative Revolutionary Habitus and the Aesthetics of Horror." ''Political Theory'' 20, no. 3 (1992): 424–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/192186. * "Paul Ricoeur as Another: how a great philosopher wrestled with his younger self", ''

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'', October 14, 2005

References

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