Brief Bio
Robert Paul Wolff received a doctorate in
Philosophy from Harvard University in 1957. He has taught at Harvard, the
University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the University of Massachusetts,
where he has been a faculty member since 1971. He has published twenty-one
books on the history of modern philosophy, social and political philosophy,
the philosophy of education, economics, and Afro-American Studies. Among
his best-known books are Kant's Theory of Mental Activity and In
Defense of Anarchism, which has just been translated into Croatian,
Korean, and Malaysian. In 1992, he was invited to join the W. E. B. Du
Bois Department of Afro-American Studies to assist in the establishment
of a doctoral program, which he has coordinated since it was established
in 1996. Wolff is now the director of the new university- wide Program
for Undergraduate Mentoring and Achievement which provides mentoring and
instructional services to traditionally underrepresented students in their
first year at UMass. In 2005 Wolff published Autobiography of an Ex-White
Man, a meditation on the experience of joining an Afro-American Studies
Department and what it taught him about America. In 1990, Wolff founded
University Scholarships for South African Students, a charitable organization
that offers financial aid to poor Black students studying at South Africa's
historically Black universities and technikons.
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Autobiography
of an Ex-White Man |
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About Philosophy,
Ninth Edition (Prentice Hall, 2005) |
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Kant's Theory of Mental
Activity: A Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the
Critique of Pure Reason (Harvard University Press, 1963) |
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In Defense of Anarchism (rpt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) |
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About Philosophy (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 7th ed., 1998) |
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Moneybags Must Be So Lucky:
On the Literary Structure of Capital (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988) |
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The Autonomy of Reason:
A Commentary on Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (New York: Harper & Row, 1973) |
