Martin Woessner is associate professor of History & Society at The City College of New York’s Center for Worker Education. He is the author of Heidegger in America (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and is currently writing a book about the philosophical films of Terrence Malick.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Habermas: Up from Heidegger
Martin Woessner on utopia, wandering in the desert, and meeting Habermas........
The Art of Survival: On Santiago Zabala’s “Why Only Art Can Save Us”
Martin Woessner considers “Why Only Art Can Save Us” by Santiago Zabala....
Rorty and Social Hope
Part of a LARB forum in which philosophers reflect on the legacy of Richard Rorty....
There Will Be Feelings: On George Toles’s “Paul Thomas Anderson”
Martin Woessner mines the depths of “Paul Thomas Anderson” by George Toles....
The Writing of Life
IT WAS A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO that I made my first visit to the Harry Ransom Center at the ...
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry System
A review of Ryan White's book on pragmatism and posthumanism in American thought....
Fail Slow, Fail Hard
Once you start looking for them, Heideggerians are everywhere. Stop hiding from Heidegger....
Brave New Worlds
The origin of the filmed work of art....
Plato at the Multiplex
Two new books remind us that the allegory of the cave is still alive and kicking, and that it speaks directly to the current cultural moment....
Peter de Bolla’s Human Rights Edifice
“What de Bolla does not do in The Architecture of Concepts is say very much about the humans who might make use of these “conceptual kinds.” Like a true architect, he seems more interested in the structures being built than in who might build them.”...
