# Robert Paul Wolff

robert paul wolff (born December 27, 1933) is an American political philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Wolff has written widely on topics in political philosophy such as Marxism, tolerance (against liberalism and in favor of anarchism), political justification, and democracy. == Education and career == Robert Wolff graduated from Harvard University with a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1953, 1954, and 1957 respectively.Wolff was an instructor in Philosophy and General Education at Harvard University from 1958–1961, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Chicago from 1961–64, Associate Professor and then Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University from 1964–71, Professor of Philosophy at University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1971–1992, and later Professor of Afro-American Studies from 1992–2008 and Professor Emeritus from 2008–present. == Scholarship == After the renewal of interest in normative political philosophy in the Anglo-American world after the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, Wolff made pointed criticisms of this work from a roughly Marxist perspective.