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  • The Seduction of Unreason

    The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition

    by Richard Wolin ...
    Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that postmodernism’s infatuation with fascism has been extensive and widespread. He questions postmodernism’s claim to have inherited the mantle of the Left, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Heidegger's Children

    Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse

    by Richard Wolin, Richard Wolin ...
    Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted Germany's brightest young intellects during the 1920s. Many were Jews, who ultimately would have to reconcile their philosophical and, often, personal commitments to Heidegger with his nefarious ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Heidegger in Ruins

    Between Philosophy and Ideology

    by Richard Wolin ...
    What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century’s most important philosopher?Martin Heidegger’s sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. As the rector of the University of Freiburg in the early 1930s, he worked hard to reshape the university in accordance with ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Wind From the East

    French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s - Second Edition

    by Richard Wolin, Richard Wolin ...
    How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960sMichel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who’s who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China’s Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Politics of Being

    The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger

    by Richard Wolin ...
    Martin Heidegger's ties to Nazism have tarnished his stature as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The publication of the Black Notebooks in 2014, which revealed the full extent of Heidegger's anti-Semitism and enduring sympathy for National Socialism, only inflamed the controversy. Richard Wolin's The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger has ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Frankfurt School Revisited

    by Richard Wolin ...
    This volume is a collection of essays by Richard Wolin, a leading political theorist and intellectual historian.It is the follow up to Wolin’s two recent, widely acclaimed books: Heidegger’s Children and The Seduction of Unreason. In those books, he explored the legacy of Martin Heidegger and his impact on some of his most influential and notable students. He dealt particularly with the effect ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    Heidegger in Ruins

    Between Philosophy and Ideology

    by Richard Wolin ...
    Narrated by Paul Brion ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 20 min

    What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher?Martin Heidegger's sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. As the rector of the University of Freiburg in the early 1930s, he worked hard to reshape the university in accordance with ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

    by Wolfram Eilenberger ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    **“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks.” —Wall Street JournalA grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major ... Read more

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  • Politics without Vision

    Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

    by Tracy B. Strong ...
    "Magisterial…a frequently surprising treatment of major political thinkers."— Perspectives on PoliticsFrom Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of ... Read more

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  • Ernst Cassirer

    The Last Philosopher of Culture

    by Edward Skidelsky ...
    This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal-idealist tradition. Edward Skidelsky traces the development of Cassirer's thought in its historical and intellectual setting. He presents Cassirer, the author of The ... Read more

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  • Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany

    Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust

    by Sonja Boos ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

    Edited by Bernd Magnus, Kathleen Higgins ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The opening essay of this 1996 Companion provides a chronologically organised introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's published works, while also providing an overview of their basic themes and concerns. It is followed by ... Read more

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