Arnold Kaufman
American political philosopher
Arnold Saul Kaufman (14 September 1927 – 6 June 1971) was an American political philosopher.
Early and personal life
Kaufman was born on 14 September 1927 in Hartford, Connecticut to Louis Kaufman and Norma Grant Kaufman Gofberg. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Belarus. His family moved to Queens, New York when he was young. Kaufman described himself as a "New York immigrant Jew". He served in the Navy for two years during World War II.
Kaufman graduated from City College of New York in 1949. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1955, with a dissertation on Leonard Hobhouse written under Charles Frankel. He was a Fulbright scholar, studying at the London School of Economics and at Oxford University.
Kaufman had a wife, Betty, and two children, Margaret and William. His brother, Jerome, was an urban planner.
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