Books written by Richard Wolin
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The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism : from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
"--Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland "This is a wide-ranging and hard-hitting critique of postmodern thinking--especially of its political limitations and failures--based on broad reading and straight thinking.
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The Frankfurt School Revisited: And Other Essays on Politics and Society
Mann's 1918 tract, Reflections of an Unpolitical Man — represents an important part of the equation. (To his credit, upon witnessing Hitler's implacable rise to power, Mann radically altered his views about the virtues of “antipolitics.
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The Frankfurt School Revisited: And Other Essays on Politics and Society
See D. Held and D. Archibugi, eds., Cosmopolitan Democracy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995). 13. Mouffe, "Radical Democracy," in A. Ross, ed., ... Talcott Parsons (New York: Scribner, 1958), 182. For an interpretation of linguistic analysis as ...
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Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas
Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas Tracy B. Strong, Richard Wolin John P. McCormick ... 207n Boyle , R. , 17 Brague , R. , 245n Brandt , W. , 242 Brecht , A. , 224n Brecht , B. , 4 , 8 , 89-109 Breines , P. , 73 Buck ...
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The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition
William Scheuerman, from whose work on 2 “rule of law” I have learned much, generously offered a variety of 3 helpful comments on ... 6 Last, but certainly not least, I'd like to thank my wife, Melissa, for 7 her patience, good cheer, ...
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The Frankfurt School Revisited
D. Silverman (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1967), 112¥21. 7. See Michele Lamont, ... Rechtsstaat as Magic Wall, ̄ in RuleofLaw under Siege, W. Scheuerman, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 243¥265. 23.
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Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse
Jean-Paul Sartre, “The Humanism of Existentialism,” in G. Guignon and D. Pereboon, eds., Existentialism: Basic Writings ... See also William E. Scheuerman, Carl Schmitt: The End of Law (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).
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The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger
Includes information on antihumanism, conservative revolutionary thought, the destining of Being, Question of Being, historicity, Adolf Hitler, Holocaust, Ernst Junger, metaphysics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato and Platonism, Otto Poggeler, ...
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The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader
Included are a selection of basic documents by Heidegger, essays and letters by Heidegger's colleagues that offer contemporary context and testimony, and interpretive evaluations by Heidegger's heirs and critics in France and Germany.In his ...
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The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger
In fact, in the estimation of Karsten Harries, “Heidegger's understanding of destiny rules out all attempts to draw anarchistic consequences from Being and Time.” Or as Harries explains, “Once we recognize that authenticity demands the ...
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The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism
The concluding section of The Terms of Cultural Criticism critically surveys the works of three important recent figures--Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.
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The Wind From the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s - Second Edition
See Richard Golsan, “Memory's Time Bombs: The Trial of Maurice Papon and the Algerian War,” in Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counter-history in Postwar France (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), 156-80.
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The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition
An earlier rendition of Political Excursus II first appeared in Fascism's Return, edited by Richard Golsan. I am grateful to the University of Nebraska Press for their permission to reprint. A number of chapters experienced a trial run ...
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Los hijos de Heidegger: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas y Herbert Marcuse
Martin Heidegger, fascinante en el aula, atrajo a los jóvenes intelectos más brillantes de Alemania de la década de 1920.
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Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse
This book explores how four of Heidegger's most influential Jewish students came to grips with his Nazi association and how it affected their thinking.
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Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse
This book explores how four of Heidegger's most influential Jewish students came to grips with his Nazi association and how it affected their thinking.
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Labyrinths: Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas
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Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption
In a new Introduction written especially for this edition, Wolin discusses the unfinished Arcades Project, as well as recent tendencies in the reception of Benjamin's work and the relevance of his ideas to contemporary debates about ...
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The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger
This is a splendid book: vigorously argued but at the same time cautious, provocative but at the same time thoroughly responsible and discriminating.
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Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology
In this book Richard Wolin explores what the notebooks mean for our understanding of arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, and of his ideas--and why his legacy remains radically compromised.