Robert Paul Wolff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1060844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Paul Wolff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolff |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFF R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On Being Both An Anarchist and A Marxist
What Good Is a Liberal Education
Research Article| June 01 2011 What Good Is a Liberal Education? Robert Paul Wolff Robert Paul Wolff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 137–151. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.1.0137 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Paul Wolff; What Good Is a Liberal Education?. Qui Parle 1 June 2011; 20 (1): 137–151. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.1.013…
In Defense of Anarchism
In Defense of Anarchism is a 1970 book by the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, in which the author defends individualist anarchism. He argues that individual autonomy and state authority are mutually exclusive and that, as individual autonomy is inalienable, the moral legitimacy of the state collapses
Robert Howell, 1992, Kant's Transcendental Deduction: An Analysis of Main Themes in His Critical Philosophy
Understanding Marx: A Reconstruction and Critique of Capital
Understanding Marx: A Reconstruction and Critique of Capital.
Robert Paul Wolff explains the development of the classical theory of value from Adam Smith to Karl Marx in a form readily accessible to readers unfamiliar with anything more than high school algebra, while at the same time offering to the specialist a fundamental criticism of Marxian political economy and an original and controversial interpretation of Capital. He clarifies recent mathematical reinterpretations of classical political economy, so…
Notes for a Materialist Analysis of the Public and the Private Realms
Herbert Marcuse: 1898-1979. A Personal Reminiscence
Understanding Rawls: A Reconstruction and Critique of a Theory of Justice.
The Description for this book, Understanding Rawls: A Reconstruction and Critique of A Theory of Justice, will be forthcoming.
Understanding Rawls: "A Reconciliation and Critique of "A Theory of Justice
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Understanding Rawls: A Reconciliation and Critique, of “A Theory of Justice”. BY Robert Paul Wolff. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1977. Pp. x + 224. Price £10.20.) R. G. Frey R. G. Frey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 114, January 1979, Pages 92–93, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219195 Published: 01 January 1979
The Autonomy of Reason
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Autonomy of Reason. By Robeet Paul Wolff. (NOW York, Evanston, San Francisco and London: Harper & Row. 1975. Pp. x + 228. Price $12.50) J. Harrison J. Harrison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 107, April 1977, Pages 176–177, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219433 Published: 01 April 1977
Understanding Rawls: A reconstruction and critique of A theory of justice
Marcuse's Theory of Toleration
Professor Wolff's explication of Herbert Marcuse's theory of toleration is especially helpful in its clarification of the concept of "surplus repression," that is, Marcuse's development of Freudian analysis of the unconscious to facilitate political analysis. The fantasy of complete freedom is the necessary means to arouse people to struggle against the surplus, unnecessary repression with which they are burdened. Repressive tolerance accepts the…
Kritik der reinen Toleranz [von] Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore,Herbert Marcuse.
Philosophy: A Modern Encounter
Maximization of Expected Utility as a Criterion of Rationality in Military Strategy and Foreign Policy
The nuclear age has given rise to projected as ranging from short, half many problems of policy formation, hour, wars to what Herman Kahn, wryly and not the least of these relate to the jjUt accurately, calls a long-war—two to formation of grand military strategy, thirty days. In such a conflict quite ob In the past, peacetime military strateviously the weaponry and troops would gies have been simple conceptions, like jje those in existence at it…
The ideal of the university
The Ideal of the University is a lucid, comprehensive analysis of the rationale, principles, and presuppositions that make contemporary universities what they are. The book begins with four sharp, carefully delineated models of a university. After analyzing such controversial issues as the role of grading in the university and the myth of value neutrality. Wolff turns to the crucial question of how the university should be governed. He argues for…
On Violence
Kant: A Collection of Critical Essays
Two Letters to the Times: Ghetto Reprisals; Right to Rebel
To the Editor: Race riots that are bringing death and destruction to our American cities are saying something to us—if only we have ears to hear.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
A Refutation of Rawls' Theorem on Justice
Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Outline of One Central Argument in the Critique of Pure Reason
First published in 1962. Kant’s philosophical works, and especially the Critique of Pure Reason, have had some influence on recent British philosophy. But the complexities of Kant’s arguments, and the unfamiliarity of his vocabulary, inhibit understanding of his point of view. In Kant’s Theory of Knowledge an attempt is made to relate Kant’s arguments in the Critique of Pure Reason to contemporary issues by expressing them in a more modern idiom.…
A Critique of Pure Tolerance
Kant's Theory of Mental Activity: A Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Kant’s Theory of Mental Activity : A commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON. By Robert Paul Wolff. (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard U. P. ; London : O.U.P. 1963. Pp. xiv + 336. Price 56s or $7.00). Graham Bird Graham Bird Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 58, January 1965, Pages 68–69, https://d…
Kant's Theory of Mental Activity: A Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason
Kritik der reinen Toleranz [von] Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore,Herbert Marcuse.
Kant's Theory of Mental Activity
On Violence
Laws of Freedom: A Study of Kant's Method of Applying the Categorical Imperative in the Metaphysik der Sitten
Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Outline of One Central Argument in the Critique of Pure Reason
First published in 1962. Kant’s philosophical works, and especially the Critique of Pure Reason, have had some influence on recent British philosophy. But the complexities of Kant’s arguments, and the unfamiliarity of his vocabulary, inhibit understanding of his point of view. In Kant’s Theory of Knowledge an attempt is made to relate Kant’s arguments in the Critique of Pure Reason to contemporary issues by expressing them in a more modern idiom.…
Marcuse's Theory of Toleration
Professor Wolff's explication of Herbert Marcuse's theory of toleration is especially helpful in its clarification of the concept of "surplus repression," that is, Marcuse's development of Freudian analysis of the unconscious to facilitate political analysis. The fantasy of complete freedom is the necessary means to arouse people to struggle against the surplus, unnecessary repression with which they are burdened. Repressive tolerance accepts the…
Hume's Theory of Mental Activity
Hume's Theory of Mental Activity
Kant's Debt to Hume Via Beattie
Kant's Theory of Mental Activity: A Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason
Kant's Theory of Mental Activity
Laws of Freedom: A Study of Kant's Method of Applying the Categorical Imperative in the Metaphysik der Sitten
Kant's Theory of Mental Activity: A Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Kant’s Theory of Mental Activity : A commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON. By Robert Paul Wolff. (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard U. P. ; London : O.U.P. 1963. Pp. xiv + 336. Price 56s or $7.00). Graham Bird Graham Bird Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 58, January 1965, Pages 68–69, https://d…
A Refutation of Rawls' Theorem on Justice
Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Outline of One Central Argument in the Critique of Pure Reason
First published in 1962. Kant’s philosophical works, and especially the Critique of Pure Reason, have had some influence on recent British philosophy. But the complexities of Kant’s arguments, and the unfamiliarity of his vocabulary, inhibit understanding of his point of view. In Kant’s Theory of Knowledge an attempt is made to relate Kant’s arguments in the Critique of Pure Reason to contemporary issues by expressing them in a more modern idiom.…
A Critique of Pure Tolerance
Kant: A Collection of Critical Essays
Two Letters to the Times: Ghetto Reprisals; Right to Rebel
To the Editor: Race riots that are bringing death and destruction to our American cities are saying something to us—if only we have ears to hear.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The ideal of the university
The Ideal of the University is a lucid, comprehensive analysis of the rationale, principles, and presuppositions that make contemporary universities what they are. The book begins with four sharp, carefully delineated models of a university. After analyzing such controversial issues as the role of grading in the university and the myth of value neutrality. Wolff turns to the crucial question of how the university should be governed. He argues for…
On Violence
Maximization of Expected Utility as a Criterion of Rationality in Military Strategy and Foreign Policy
The nuclear age has given rise to projected as ranging from short, half many problems of policy formation, hour, wars to what Herman Kahn, wryly and not the least of these relate to the jjUt accurately, calls a long-war—two to formation of grand military strategy, thirty days. In such a conflict quite ob In the past, peacetime military strateviously the weaponry and troops would gies have been simple conceptions, like jje those in existence at it…
Philosophy: A Modern Encounter
Kritik der reinen Toleranz [von] Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore,Herbert Marcuse.
Marcuse's Theory of Toleration
Professor Wolff's explication of Herbert Marcuse's theory of toleration is especially helpful in its clarification of the concept of "surplus repression," that is, Marcuse's development of Freudian analysis of the unconscious to facilitate political analysis. The fantasy of complete freedom is the necessary means to arouse people to struggle against the surplus, unnecessary repression with which they are burdened. Repressive tolerance accepts the…
The Autonomy of Reason
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Autonomy of Reason. By Robeet Paul Wolff. (NOW York, Evanston, San Francisco and London: Harper & Row. 1975. Pp. x + 228. Price $12.50) J. Harrison J. Harrison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 107, April 1977, Pages 176–177, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219433 Published: 01 April 1977
Understanding Rawls: A reconstruction and critique of A theory of justice
Understanding Rawls: A Reconstruction and Critique of a Theory of Justice.
The Description for this book, Understanding Rawls: A Reconstruction and Critique of A Theory of Justice, will be forthcoming.
Understanding Rawls: "A Reconciliation and Critique of "A Theory of Justice
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Understanding Rawls: A Reconciliation and Critique, of “A Theory of Justice”. BY Robert Paul Wolff. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1977. Pp. x + 224. Price £10.20.) R. G. Frey R. G. Frey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 114, January 1979, Pages 92–93, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219195 Published: 01 January 1979
Herbert Marcuse: 1898-1979. A Personal Reminiscence
Notes for a Materialist Analysis of the Public and the Private Realms
Understanding Marx: A Reconstruction and Critique of Capital.
Robert Paul Wolff explains the development of the classical theory of value from Adam Smith to Karl Marx in a form readily accessible to readers unfamiliar with anything more than high school algebra, while at the same time offering to the specialist a fundamental criticism of Marxian political economy and an original and controversial interpretation of Capital. He clarifies recent mathematical reinterpretations of classical political economy, so…
Understanding Marx: A Reconstruction and Critique of Capital
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