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After much work, lovingly carried out by Michael Hemmingsen,
Megan Kelly Mitchell, and myself, the Complete
Published and Unpublished Papers of Robert Paul Wolff In Four Volumes is now available on Amazon.com for only $9.99 a
volume [all proceeds go to the Society for Philosophy and Culture at McMaster
University.] The four volumes contain more than eighty
journal articles, reviews, blog tutorials, appreciations, unpublished essays,
speeches, and jeux d'esprits.
Volume I, Nodding In
On The Great Conversation, offers juvenilia, published before I was old
enough to vote, and then moves on to a collection of my writings on David Hume
and Immanuel Kant, followed by writings and speeches devoted to the Philosophy of
Education. The section on Hume and Kant
begins with a previously unpublished report of a conference I attended at
Columbia Law School on Kant and the Law.
It was intended for publication in the Columbia Law Journal, but the student editors were so scandalized
by my mordant comments on the conference participants that they could not bring
themselves to publish it. This section
also includes "The Completion of Kant's Moral Theory in the Tenets of the Rechtslehre," an essay that is, in
my considered judgment, an extremely important contribution both to the interpretation
of Kant's moral philosophy and to an understanding of the relationship between Kant's
ethical theory and John Rawls' A Theory
of Justice.
The section devoted to the Philosophy of Education opens
with "The Pimple on Adonis' Nose," a challenge to conventional views
about health care and education in the guise of a travelogue to an imaginary
country, Invertia. This piece is
followed by my review of Allan Bloom's appalling best-seller, The Closing of the American Mind, said
by some to be the best book review ever written. The section concludes with three pieces on
education in South Africa.
Volume II, From Each
According To His Ability, brings together my many writings on Karl Marx and
his legacy. Thanks to the gracious
generosity of two distinguished theorists, John Roemer and David Schweickart, I
was able to include in this volume their critiques of an essay I wrote and my
responses. The volume also contains my little-known
critique of the thought of Hannah Arendt, "Notes for a Materialist
Analysis of the Public and the Private Realms," which may be of interest
to those who have seen the recent biopic on Arendt.
Volume III, A Credo
For Progressives, contains many of my writings about theoretical and
practical politics. In addition to
several well-known essays, it includes fugitive writings from my early
involvement in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The volume concludes with two hand-written
drafts, salvaged from my files, that are photographically reproduced in their
original form as an example of the way I work out ideas rattling around in my
mind. I also reproduce here my
unpublished literary analysis of Alice Walker's famous novel, The Color Purple, an essay that does not
fit naturally into any of the categories of the four volumes.
Volume IV, A Head in
the Cloud, gathers together the Tutorials, Mini-Tutorials, Micro-Tutorials,
and Appreciations that appeared on this blog over the course of a year or more.
I make jokes about this project because I am a bit
embarrassed by the element of shameless self-promotion involved, but the truth
is a bit more serious. For sixty years,
I have been pouring my thoughts onto the printed page. Despite a lifetime of teaching, political
activism, and eleemosynary efforts, I am, before all else, a writer. As I enter the final stage of my life, it is
important to me, if to no one else, that I gather together the efforts of a
lifetime and present them to the world, "telling my name the live long
day/ to an admiring bog," in the poignant words of Emily Dickinson. I leave it to others to decide whether it has
been worth the effort.
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Hi do you have the link in Amazon. I have searched without success
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