Eugene Victor Wolfenstein (July 9, 1940 – December 15, 2010) was an American social theorist, practicing psychoanalyst, and a professor of political science at University of California, Los Angeles.
Wolfenstein worked in the critical theory tradition, with a focus on African American culture and social movements.
A Gift of the Spirit: Reading THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (2007) offered a sustained reconstruction of W. E. B.
A further study entitled “Talking Books: Toni Morrison Among the Ancestors” was published right before his death.
At the graduate level, he focused on major works of Du Bois, Foucault, Freud, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche, along with the related critical literatures.