Robert Paul Wolff: 15 books
A Head In The Cloud
Tutorials, Mini-Tutorials, Micro-Tutorials, and Appreciations From the Blog of Robert Paul Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
When Robert Paul Wolff retired in 2008 after a fifty-year career as a university professor, he was somewhat at a loss as to what to do. One of his sons said, "Why don't you start a blog, Dad?" And so, like hundreds of millions of others around the world, he did. The Philosopher's Stone has...
A Credo for Progressives
Essays on Political Theory and Practical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
For fifty-five years, Robert Paul Wolff has been reflecting on the theory of modern political society and engaging actively in a number of progressive political movements, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the protest against the Viet Nam War, and the world-wide effort to end the apartheid...
From Each According To His Ability
Essays on Karl Marx and Classical Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
For thirty-five years, Robert Paul Wolff has been carrying on a deep study of the tradition of social and economic theory that started with the French Physiocrats and Adam Smith and was brought to its highest point of development by Karl Marx. Wolff is unique among students of the thought of Marx...
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man
Learning a New Master Narrative for America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience. The book begins with an autobiographical narrative of the events leading...
Nodding In On The Great Conversation
Juvenilia and Published and Unpublished Essays on David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
For more than half a century, Philosopher Robert Paul Wolff has been thinking and writing about the great figures of eighteenth century philosophy and about the ideals and realities of American higher education. In this first volume of his collected published and unpublished papers, a number of those...
by Robert Paul Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Addressing himself not only to radical thinkers but to liberal thinkers as well, Robert Paul Wolff, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, provides here an examination of four concepts central to liberal political concerns: Liberty, Tolerance, Loyalty, and Power. With distinctive...
Understanding Rawls
A Reconstruction and Critique of A Theory of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Since its publication in 1971, John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice has been the subject of a lively debate among philosophers, economists, and political scientists. In this book, Robert Paul Wolff provides an interpretation and critique of Rawls’ theory that both clarifies it and reveals its basic...
by Robert Paul Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Political Theory has been transformed in the last thirty years by the introduction of methods of analysis imported from mathematics and economics. Modern students of the subject need to know something about Rational Choice Theory, Game Theory, and Collective Choice Theory if they are to be able to...
Moneybags Must Be So Lucky
On the Literary Structure of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Karl Marx’s great work, Capital, has intrigued and puzzled readers for more than a century by its mystifyingly intricate arguments and dramatic literary embellishments. In this book, Robert Paul Wolff dispels much of the mystery surrounding Capital by providing a literary-philosophical analysis...
The Autonomy of Reason
A Commentary on Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The Autonomy of Reason reflects Wolff’s determination to get out of Kant’s system what is good and to get out of Kant’s system for good. Readers will certainly benefit from Wolff’s two decades of intense study of Kant. Wolff does not see his task as one of either historical exegesis or philosophical...
Is Marx's Theory of Profit Right?
The Simultaneist–Temporalist Debate
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
This collection focuses on a long-running debate over the logical validity of Karl Marx’s theory that exploitation is the exclusive source of capitalists’ profits. The “Fundamental Marxian Theorem” was long thought to have shown that orthodox Marxian economics succeeds in replicating Marx’s...
by Robert Paul Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A delightful journey that takes the author from his second year of life to his seventy-fourth. Along the way, Wolff gives us an inside look at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Columbia, the University of Massachusetts, and a variety of other institutions of higher learning in the United...
Kant’s Theory of Mental Activity
A Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
This book analyses and explains the central passage of Kant’s philosophy, the “Transcendental Analytic” of the Critique of Pure Reason. It proceeds in the manner of a textual commentary, discussing and explaining each section of the Analytic in turn. The purpose, however, is not merely to comment...
Understanding Marx
A Reconstruction and Critique of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This book 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 elementary arithmetic, while at the same time offering to the specialist a fundamental criticism of Marxian political economy...
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