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15Hegel, Freedom, and Modernity (review)Review of Metaphysics 46 (4): 881-882. 1993.Westphal's new book is marked by clarity and simplicity of style, a rare quality in the often turgid Hegel discussion, whose obscurity often approaches that of the master's own writing. The result is a refreshing, interesting, informed, intelligent, often critical examination of a variety of themes in Hegel's theory by one of our best Hegel scholars.
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47Put’ Gegelja k “Nauke logiki” (review)The Owl of Minerva 21 (1): 99-102. 1989.What is the “correct” way to review a Russian language Hegel study? From the philosophical perspective, it is certainly insufficient to leave this task to the practicing sovietologist, whose concern in not intrinsic philosophical merit. In the present review, I shall bracket all other questions in order to focus on the philosophical contribution of the work under discussion.
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15Bemerkungen zum Neo-Marxismus: Sartre und HabermasZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 36 (2). 1982.
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10Remarques sur Fichte and SartreJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 7 (3): 208-223. 1995.none.
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11Fichte Marx and the German Philosophical TradtiionSouthern Illinois University Press. 1980.A systematic and historical study of the relation of the positions of Fichte and Marx within the context of nineteenth-century German philosophy as well as the wider history of philosophy. Rockmore’s thesis is that there is a little noticed, less often studied, but nevertheless profound structural parallel between the two positions that can be shown to be mediated through the development of the nineteenth-century German philosophical tradition. Both positions understand man in anti-Cartesian …Read more
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2Metaphysics at the End of the CenturyBudhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 3 (2 & 3): 111-122. 1999.
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49Idealist Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutics of IdealismIdealistic Studies 12 (2): 91-102. 1982.The recent concern with hermeneutics, which stems above all from Truth and Method, should not be allowed to obscure the fact, to which Gadamer certainly is sensitive, that this topic has a long philosophical lineage, extending back into the tradition at least to Aristotle. In particular, it seems rarely to have been noticed that although their thought is notoriously difficult, the major members of the German idealist tradition provided not only the positions themselves, but a theory of their int…Read more
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27Fried, Gregory. Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (2): 419-421. 2002.
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53Fichte, German idealism, and early romanticism (edited book)Rodopi. 2010.This volume of 23 previously unpublished essays explores the relationship between the philosophy of J.G. Fichte and that of other leading thinkers associated ...
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5The Politics of Salvation (review)Idealistic Studies 16 (3): 279-280. 1986.This is not an ordinary study of Hegel’s thought; it is rather an unusual effort to apply that thought to contemporary issues, in particular to that complex problem known as liberation theology. Lakeland’s approach can be loosely characterized as both right wing Hegelian, in that stress is placed on Christian elements, and as progressive Catholic as concerns the interest in liberation theology. The thesis he advances is that Hegel’s political theology is appropriate to illuminate the connection …Read more
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86Aspects of French HegelianismThe Owl of Minerva 24 (2): 191-206. 1993.It is hardly surprising, since for Hegel philosophers are children of their times, that French Hegelianism differs from Hegelianism in other languages and literatures. At least the following aspects typify the French approach to Hegel's theory. To begin with, Hegel, like a few others, is a master thinker in the French discussion, one of the few intellectual figures around whom the discussion tends to take shape. Second, in the wake of the major impetus provided to French Hegel studies by Kojève'…Read more
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29Heidegger's uses of Plato and the history of philosophyIn Catalin Partenie & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Heidegger and Plato: Toward Dialogue, Northwestern University Press. pp. 192--212. 2005.
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23Recent Discussion of Heidegger and PoliticsGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 21 (2): 47-67. 1999.There is an obvious distinction between the philosophical meditation on politics and relevance to politics, on the one hand, and the political engagement of philosophers and even philosophy, on the other. At this late date, there can be few people interested in philosophy, and even many uninterested in this ancient discipline, unaware that Martin Heidegger turned to Nazism in the 1930s. Heidegger, who all his life subscribed to the Platonic view of the priority of philosophy over politics, later…Read more
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67Fichtean Circularity, Antifoundationalism, and Groundless SystemIdealistic Studies 25 (1): 107-124. 1995.For some time now I have been arguing that Fichte's theory can be read as circular, antifoundationalist, and systematic, and further arguing that it is the source of an epistemological revolution in philosophy. Fichte and most of his interpreters mainly see him as carrying forward the critical philosophy. But I see him as breaking with it in crucial ways in a profoundly innovative theory. The aim of this paper is to pull together aspects of this argument in a single place in order to describe Fi…Read more
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28On Foundationalism: A Strategy for Metaphysical RealismRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.In ancient times, the main approaches to metaphysical realism were intuitive. In modern times, foundationalism has replaced intuition as the main strategy to make out metaphysical realist claims to know. In On Foundationalism, Rockmore argues that foundationalism fails in all its known variants
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8Ambiguity and orthodoxy: Bertram Wolfe's view of Marx and MarxismStudies in Soviet Thought 20 (4): 349-360. 1979.
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22Report on the Third International Philosophical‐Cultural Symposium on MetaphilosophyMetaphilosophy 29 (1&2): 3-5. 1998.
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62Epistemology As HermeneuticsThe Monist 73 (2): 115-133. 1990.Recent discussion has seen an increase in the interest in hermeneutics. The increased interest in hermeneutics goes back at least until the appearance of Being and Time in 1927, more than sixty years ago. Thisbookis characterized by the unresolved tension between two clearly incompatible theses: the Husserlian form of absolute truth, and a post-Husserlian view of truth arising from the hermeneutical circle. More recently, the interest in hermeneutics has been strengthened by the appearance of Tr…Read more
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