The Philolexian Society of Columbia University
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
Social theorist; UCLA political scientist · Philo winner, best-name category.
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Social theorist; UCLA political scientist · Philo winner, best-name category
Vital
- Full name
- Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
Columbia & the Society
- Columbia
- Class of 1962 (Columbia College)
Works (32)
- 1967 The Revolutionary Personality: Lenin, Trotsky, Gandhi · Princeton University Press
- 1968 The Revolutionary Personality
- 1969 Personality and Politics · Dickenson Publishing
- 1970 Psyche behind political man · Trans-action
- 1974 The Two Wars of Lyndon Johnson · Politics & Society
- 1976 The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type, by Bruce Mazlish · Political Science Quarterly
- 1977 Neurosis and Civilization: A Marxist/Freudian Synthesis, by Michael Schneider · Political Science Quarterly
- 1977 Race, Racism and Racial Liberation · Western Political Quarterly
- 1978 Mao Tse-tung: The Man in the Leader. By Lucian W. Pye. (New York: Basic Books, 1976. Pp. xv + 346. $12.95.) · American Political Science Review
- 1978 The Totalitarian Temptation, by Jean-François Revel · Political Science Quarterly
- 1979 The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky, by Baruch Knei-Paz · Political Science Quarterly
- 1981 The Victims of Democracy
- 1981 The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution · Psychoanalytic-Marxist study of Malcolm X
- 1986 Review of Psycho politics: Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz, and the future of mass psychiatry. · Psychoanalytic Psychology
- 1991 Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory.C. Fred Alford · The Journal of Politics
- 1993 Mr. Moneybags Meets the Rat Man: Marx and Freud on the Meaning of Money · Political Psychology
- 1993 Psychoanalytic-Marxism: Groundwork · Guilford Press (US) / Free Association Books (UK)
- 1996 Books in Review · Political Theory
- 1998 Michel Foucault and Psychoanalytic-Marxism · South Atlantic Quarterly
- 2000 Inside/Outside Nietzsche
- 2000 Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations · Cornell University Press
- 2000 New Souls for Old? Race, Gender, and the Transformational Effects or Social Movements · Studies in Gender and Sexuality
- 2001 Psychobiography Within Limits: Malcolm X · Clio's Psyche
- 2003 Introduction to Roundtable on Pillar of Salt · Studies in Gender and Sexuality
- 2005 Recognition and The Souls of Black Folks · Souls
- 2006 A True Gentlewoman · Clio's Psyche
- 2007 A Gift of the Spirit: Reading The Souls of Black Folk · Cornell University Press
- 2008 Introduction · Studies in Gender and Sexuality
- 2008 W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet. By Edward J. Blum. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. viii + 273 pp. $39.95 Cloth · Politics and Religion
- 2010 Talking Books: Toni Morrison Among the Ancestors · Published posthumously (author d. Dec. 2010)
- 2019 A Gift of the Spirit
- 1962 Psychoanalytic Marxism
Primary sources
The Columbia Daily Spectator
1962-02-16 College Group Revives The Philolexian Society; Third Oldest Literary Society in United States Was First Student Group at King's College named in the 1962 revival announcement
Columbia Daily Spectator, 16 Feb 1962: article announcing the 1962 revival of Philolexian names Robert Carl Pinckert (advisor), and among the revival cohort: John Alexander, Jeffrey Cook, Mark Dintenfass, Richard Wells, Samuel Quinones-Vizcarrondo, and Eugene Victor Wolfenstein.
Columbia College Today & other articles
Columbia College Today — vol. 54 (~2013), Class of 1962 class notes — email from Thomas Vinciguerra '85 recounting Spec archive discovery
Thomas Vinciguerra '85, '86J, '90 GSAS wrote: 'I have just made an interesting discovery in Spectator's newly digitized archives. In the year of your graduation, an attempt was made to revive the Philolexian Society by the assistant to the dean, Robert Pinckert '52, himself a former member of the society... But I now see that Bob named two of your classmates to Philo's ranks.' Those esteemed undergraduates were John Alexander and Vic Wolfenstein.
CCT vol. 54 Class of 1962 class-notes item, quoting Thomas Vinciguerra's email about the 1962 Philolexian revival that Robert Pinckert '52 (assistant to the dean, and himself a former Philo) attempted, naming John Alexander and Vic Wolfenstein as his 1962 inductees. Secondary attestation reinforcing the primary Spec cs19620216-01.2.9 citation. Also notes: Vinciguerra revived Philolexian in 1987 (though his own 1987 CCT essay described the revival as beginning in fall 1985); as of the ~2013 date, 73 students were members and 400+ had joined since re-inception.
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