Robert Paul Wolff
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1968]
Description
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 precision of thought, Wolff shows how deeply liberals are dedicated to what is for him the "moral disaster" of American politics and for them "stability,"...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1973]
Description
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 criticism. In the place of both Wolff proposes a "philosophical reconstruction" of the text.
