Martin Woessner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Woessner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Woessner |
| SIGNATURE | WOESSNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | City College of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vattimo at the Movies in advance
Gianni Vattimo wrote prolifically about art, scattering insightful interpretations of literature, poetry, and photography across many of his books and essays. The one artform he did not seem much interested in, though, was cinema. In only a handful of texts did Vattimo comment on the movies. But these musings—about Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936), say, or the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man (2009)—signal an appreciation of film’s philosophical…
The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee
Arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is moved from below by a vast substructure of ideas, we are still far from grasping Coetzee's intellectual allegiances as a whole. This book sets out to examine these allegiances in ways not attempted before, by bringi…
R obert E. L erner . Ernst Kantorowicz
One assumes that scholars of the Middle Ages do not make for the most interesting biographical subjects. They work in dead languages on esoteric subjects and are often sequestered in out-of-the-way archives, where they toil on projects that will be confined to obscure academic journals. Their efforts seem ripe for anonymity, if not comedy. It was no accident that the protagonist of Kingsley Amis’s send-up of scholarly solipsism, Lucky Jim (1954),…
Truth or fiction
In his 1987 acceptance speech for the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society, which since 1963 has honoured authors whose works have contributed in some fashion to the cause o
Human Rights as Social Construction by Benjamin Gregg
Niklas Olsen. History in the Plural
Befitting its subject, this book is a methodologically sound and theoretically sophisticated piece of scholarship. Niklas Olsen has done the English-speaking world a profound service by situating the work of Reinhart Koselleck—one of the most compelling theorists of history of recent memory—back into the many contexts out of which it emerged and which it eventually helped to transform over the course of a distinguished career. Ably utilizing insi…
Theology and the Boundary Discourse of Human Rights by Ethna Regan
Reconsidering the slaughter bench of history
This essay examines the philosophy of history in the aftermath of the twentieth century. It argues that the philosophy of history has been both a catalyst and a victim of genocide. On the one hand, theories about the fated course of human development have been used to rationalize and justify imperialist, genocidal actions, especially insofar as they often placed the peoples and nations on the supposed right or wrong side of an imagined world-hist…
What Is Heideggerian Cinema? Film, Philosophy, and Cultural Mobility
The cinematic works of the American director Terrence Malick offer historians a glimpse of the complex, ever-evolving network of intellectual transference that defines the contemporary era. Malick, who abandoned a career in philosophy for film, was profoundly influenced by Martin Heidegger. By relating Malick's Hollywood career to his early philosophical studies, this essay suggests that philosophical reception transcends the academic library and…
A new ontology for the era of the New Economy
Rescuing the ‘Right to the City’
What does the ‘Right to the City’ mean in this, the twenty‐first century? Two articles in the previous issue: ‘Taking the bus daily and demonstrating on Sunday: reflections on the formation of poli
Making the World Safe for Violence
Making the World Safe for Violence
Ethics, architecture and Heidegger
This paper re-examines the thought of Martin Heidegger - especially his 1951 essay "Building Dwelling Thinking" - and his influence on North American architectural thought. It distinguishes elements which were reactionary responses to modernism from strands emphasizing the liberation of the individual and of the society in their relationships with nature and with locality. This latter strand has fed resistance to the de-humanised environments pro…
Rescuing the ‘Right to the City’
What does the ‘Right to the City’ mean in this, the twenty‐first century? Two articles in the previous issue: ‘Taking the bus daily and demonstrating on Sunday: reflections on the formation of poli
What Is Heideggerian Cinema? Film, Philosophy, and Cultural Mobility
The cinematic works of the American director Terrence Malick offer historians a glimpse of the complex, ever-evolving network of intellectual transference that defines the contemporary era. Malick, who abandoned a career in philosophy for film, was profoundly influenced by Martin Heidegger. By relating Malick's Hollywood career to his early philosophical studies, this essay suggests that philosophical reception transcends the academic library and…
Ethics, architecture and Heidegger
This paper re-examines the thought of Martin Heidegger - especially his 1951 essay "Building Dwelling Thinking" - and his influence on North American architectural thought. It distinguishes elements which were reactionary responses to modernism from strands emphasizing the liberation of the individual and of the society in their relationships with nature and with locality. This latter strand has fed resistance to the de-humanised environments pro…
Making the World Safe for Violence
Making the World Safe for Violence
Rescuing the ‘Right to the City’
What does the ‘Right to the City’ mean in this, the twenty‐first century? Two articles in the previous issue: ‘Taking the bus daily and demonstrating on Sunday: reflections on the formation of poli
A new ontology for the era of the New Economy
Reconsidering the slaughter bench of history
This essay examines the philosophy of history in the aftermath of the twentieth century. It argues that the philosophy of history has been both a catalyst and a victim of genocide. On the one hand, theories about the fated course of human development have been used to rationalize and justify imperialist, genocidal actions, especially insofar as they often placed the peoples and nations on the supposed right or wrong side of an imagined world-hist…
What Is Heideggerian Cinema? Film, Philosophy, and Cultural Mobility
The cinematic works of the American director Terrence Malick offer historians a glimpse of the complex, ever-evolving network of intellectual transference that defines the contemporary era. Malick, who abandoned a career in philosophy for film, was profoundly influenced by Martin Heidegger. By relating Malick's Hollywood career to his early philosophical studies, this essay suggests that philosophical reception transcends the academic library and…
Theology and the Boundary Discourse of Human Rights by Ethna Regan
Niklas Olsen. History in the Plural
Befitting its subject, this book is a methodologically sound and theoretically sophisticated piece of scholarship. Niklas Olsen has done the English-speaking world a profound service by situating the work of Reinhart Koselleck—one of the most compelling theorists of history of recent memory—back into the many contexts out of which it emerged and which it eventually helped to transform over the course of a distinguished career. Ably utilizing insi…
Human Rights as Social Construction by Benjamin Gregg
Truth or fiction
In his 1987 acceptance speech for the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society, which since 1963 has honoured authors whose works have contributed in some fashion to the cause o
The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee
Arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is moved from below by a vast substructure of ideas, we are still far from grasping Coetzee's intellectual allegiances as a whole. This book sets out to examine these allegiances in ways not attempted before, by bringi…
R obert E. L erner . Ernst Kantorowicz
One assumes that scholars of the Middle Ages do not make for the most interesting biographical subjects. They work in dead languages on esoteric subjects and are often sequestered in out-of-the-way archives, where they toil on projects that will be confined to obscure academic journals. Their efforts seem ripe for anonymity, if not comedy. It was no accident that the protagonist of Kingsley Amis’s send-up of scholarly solipsism, Lucky Jim (1954),…
Vattimo at the Movies in advance
Gianni Vattimo wrote prolifically about art, scattering insightful interpretations of literature, poetry, and photography across many of his books and essays. The one artform he did not seem much interested in, though, was cinema. In only a handful of texts did Vattimo comment on the movies. But these musings—about Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936), say, or the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man (2009)—signal an appreciation of film’s philosophical…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Art history (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)