Biography

Robert Wolff graduated from Harvard University with a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1953, 1954, and 1957 respectively.

Wolff has written widely on topics in political philosophy such as Marxism, tolerance (against liberalism and in favor of anarchism), political justification and democracy.

In 1990, Wolff founded University Scholarships for South African Students, an organization devoted to promoting opportunities in higher education within South Africa for disadvantaged South African students.

Father Walter Harold Wolff, mother Charlotte Ornstein.

Taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia University and, for most of his career, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, first in the Philosophy Department and then in the Afro-American Studies Department.