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  • Kant’s Theory of Mental Activity

    A Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    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 chapter by chapter on what Kant has written, but rather to reorganise and interpret his argument so ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Understanding Rawls

    A Reconstruction and Critique of A Theory of Justice

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    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 flaws.According to Professor Wolff, Rawls’ device of a bargaining game among self-interested parties is ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Devils & Wizards

    by Paul Wolff ...
    "Devils & Wizards" an epic medieval fantasy novel for adults 18 and up.In a kingdom where magic is forbidden and sorcerers are burned for sport; young Randall should know better than to practice spells. When he is caught in the bed of his corrupt employer's daughter, he finds himself on the run - straight into the sewers and the claws of a gang of wererats.They're thieves, scavengers, survivors... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Life in the Academy

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    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 States and South Africa.Wolff met a number of well-known intellectuals and academics, from Bertrand Russell ... Read more

    $8.00 CAD

  • The Poverty of Liberalism

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Autonomy of Reason

    A Commentary on Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    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. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to the Use of Formal Methods in Political Philosophy

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    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 master contemporary discussions. This little book, by well-known philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, lays ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Is Marx's Theory of Profit Right?

    The Simultaneist–Temporalist Debate

    by Robert Paul Wolff, Chris Byron, Alan Freeman, Simon Mohun, Roberto Veneziani, Andrew Kliman, Nick Potts ...
    Series series Heterodox Studies in the Critique of Political Economy
    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 conclusion. The debate begins with Andrew Kliman’s disproof of that claim.On one side of the debate, ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • A Credo for Progressives

    Essays on Political Theory and Practical Politics

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    Series series The Collected Papers of Robert Paul Wolff
    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 regime in South Africa. This volume brings together a wide-ranging selection of the writings ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Moneybags Must Be So Lucky

    On the Literary Structure of Capital

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    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 of the text and of Marx’s intentions. Writing in a lively, satirical, sometimes comical style that ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Nodding In On The Great Conversation

    Juvenilia and Published and Unpublished Essays on David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Higher Education

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    Series series The Collected Papers of Robert Paul Wolff
    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 writings are collected and made available.The volume opens with Wolff's very earliest published ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • From Each According To His Ability

    Essays on Karl Marx and Classical Political Economy

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    Series series The Collected Papers of Robert Paul Wolff
    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 in his ability to address the philosophical underpinnings of Marx's thought, the formal mathematical ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD