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41Marx between Feuerbach and HegelIdealistic Studies 42 (2-3): 109-118. 2012.This paper is about the uses made of Feuerbach’s position in Marxist hagiography as part of the process of the conceptual and political canonization of Marx
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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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31The Pittsburgh School, The Given and KnowledgeNormative Functionalism and the Pittsburgh School. 2012.The Pittsburgh School, aka the Pittsburgh Hegelians or as the Pittsburgh neo-Hegelians, is often associated with Sellars, McDowell and Brandom. The views of the Pittsburgh School arise on the heels of Sellars’ rejection of the given, but differ in important ways. The difficulty, if one turns away from the given, lies in justifying objective claims to know. I argue that neither Sellars, nor Brandom, nor McDowell successfully justifies claims to know. I further question their supposed Hegelianism.…Read more
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53Fichte, German idealism, and early romanticism (edited book)Rodopi. 2010.This volume of 23 previously unpublished essays explores the relationship between the philosophy of J.G. Fichte and that of other leading thinkers associated ...
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5On Recent Trends in Philosophy in the United StatesBudhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 1 (2): 103-112. 1997.
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31Remarks on Russian Philosophy, Soviet Philosophy, and HistoricismDiogenes 56 (2-3): 84-94. 2009.This paper concerns two themes: my personal experience of Russian philosophy and Russian philosophers on the one hand, and historicism on the other. My account of my limited experience of Russian philosophers and philosophy will be mainly autobiographical. My remarks about historicism will concern a single aspect of the philosophical consequences of the Soviet experience for Russian philosophy. When I come to Russia, I am always surprised by the degree of interest in a historical approach to kno…Read more
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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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Marxism and Alternatives: Towards the Conceptual Interaction among Soviet Philosophy, Neo-Thomism, Pragmatism and PhenomenologyStudies in Soviet Thought 23 (3): 229-237. 1981.
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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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10On Heidegger and National Socialism: A Triple Turn?Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 14 (2-1): 423-439. 1991.
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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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9Reading Hegel's Phenomenology (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (4): 493-494. 2005.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Reading Hegel’s PhenomenologyTom RockmoreJohn Russon. Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. xi + 299. Cloth, $50.00. Paper, $27.95.Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has been increasingly studied in ever-greater detail in recent years. In John Russon's interpretive study of Hegel's theories in this book, explanation is tightly constrained by the core argument of its various sections.…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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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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94TILES, MARY [1984]: Bachelard: Science and Objectivity. Cambridge University Press. xxii+242 pp. (ISBN 0-521-24803-5 hard covers; 0-521-28973-4 paperback) (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (4): 529-531. 1986.
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20Gadamer, Rorty and Epistemology as HermeneuticsLaval Théologique et Philosophique 53 (1): 119-130. 1997.
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108The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical ReaderEthics 103 (1): 178-181. 1992.This anthology is a significant contribution to the debate over the relevance of Martin Heidegger's Nazi ties to the interpretation and evaluation of his philosophical work. Included are a selection of basic documents by Heidegger, essays and letters by Heidegger's colleagues that offer contemporary context and testimony, and interpretive evaluations by Heidegger's heirs and critics in France and Germany.In his new introduction, "Note on a Missing Text," Richard Wolin uses the absence from this …Read more
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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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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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Leszek Kolakowski, "Die Hauptsstromungen des Marxismus: Entstehung, Entwicklung, Zerfall" (review)Man and World 12 (1): 89. 1979.
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Père Marcel Régnier (1900-1998): Hommage au Père Marcel REGNIER (1900-1998)Archives de Philosophie 62 (3): 429-442. 1999.
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