{"id":349,"date":"2025-01-10T14:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/robert-paul-wolff-1933-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:31:09","slug":"robert-paul-wolff-1933-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/robert-paul-wolff-1933-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Paul Wolff (1933-2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When John Silber died in September of 2012, Robert Wolff expressed his contempt for the conservative Boston University president in an ironically entitled notice, De Mortuis<\/a>. Wolff's title alludes to the Latin saying de mortuis nil nisi bonum<\/em>.  Literally translated: "About the dead, nothing except the good," which is to say, "Speak no evil of the dead." I have criticized Wolff with trenchancy and sarcasm on more than one occasion, and he richly deserved it;  on this occasion, however, I will not follow his example but heed the Latin injunction and refer you to On Books and Gratitude<\/a> wherein I say something nice about the man. I will add that his writings on anarchism and on Kant are well worth the time and effort.  Here are my Substack<\/em> articles on Wolff on anarchism:<\/span><\/p>\n

Notes on Anarchism I<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Notes on Anarchism II<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Notes on Anarchism III<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Paul Wolff on Anarchism and Marxism<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/span><\/a> is an obituary. (HT: Dave Lull)<\/span><\/p>\n

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When John Silber died in September of 2012, Robert Wolff expressed his contempt for the conservative Boston University president in an ironically entitled notice, De Mortuis. Wolff's title alludes to the Latin saying de mortuis nil nisi bonum.  Literally translated: "About the dead, nothing except the good," which is to say, "Speak no evil of … Continue reading “Robert Paul Wolff (1933-2025)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,103,145,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anarchism","category-marx","category-obituaries","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}