Richard Wolin

Richard Wolin is an intellectual historian. 2Life 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. 2Works 3Books 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