Richard Wolin

Richard Wolin
Wolin during a recent event at CUNY Graduate Center
Born	1961 Chicago, Illinois
Residence	New York, New York
Citizenship	American
Fields	Intellectual history, political philosophy, cultural theory
Institutions	The Graduate Center, CUNY
Alma mater	Reed College[York University]
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Richard Wolin is an intellectual historian.

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.