The Frankfurt School Revisited - Hardcover

Wolin, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415953561 ISBN 13: 9780415953566

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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 that Heidegger’s subsequent embrace of fascism and National Socialism had on these students. Delving further in his next book, Wolin explored the question of why philosophers and intellectuals have been drawn to antiliberal, antidemocratic fascism.

The essays in this book are focused on European Political Thought particularly with figures associated with the Frankfurt School. The collection represents a virtual who’s who of European political thinkers with essays on Walter Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Arendt, Heidegger, Weber, Jaspers, and Carl Schmitt. Moving beyond these thinkers and those books, this collection will also include essays on contemporary political issues such as post-communist revolutions, human rights, global democracy, the revival of republicanism, and religion and public life.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History, Comparative Literature, and Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Among his books are Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Martin Heidegger (2001) and The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism (2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415953561
• ISBN 13: 9780415953566
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328