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28Ambiguity and orthodoxy: Bertram Wolfe's view of Marx and MarxismStudies in East European Thought 20 (4): 349-360. 1979.The purpose of this paper is to study bertram wolfe's views of marx and marxism, and in particular to call attention to his insistence on the basic ambiguity of the classical doctrines and the exploitation of that ambiguity within differing concepts of marxist orthodoxy. i suggest that the importance of wolfe's views of marx and marxism lies less in the specific theses he advances or in the details of his discussion. in opposition to the more usual approach to marxism as a unified phenomenon, wo…Read more
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20Hegel on Epistemological Circularity and CertaintyInternational Philosophical Quarterly 21 (3): 235-248. 1981.
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Remarks on the structure of twentieth century philosophyArs Disputandi 3 332-339. 2003.In this paper, the author reviews recent developments in twentieth century philosophy. Three important movements emerged independently, movements which for different reasons rapidly came to dominate the debate: American pragmatism, so-called continental philosophy, and Anglo-American analytic philosophy. Each of these tendencies has its own undeniable charms. It would be mistaken to think that one has a decisive advantage over its philosophical competition. The author argues that these three mov…Read more
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20Die transzendentale naturlehre fichtes nach den prinzipien der wissenschaftslehreJournal of the History of Philosophy 25 (3): 455-456. 1987.
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18Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl MarxWiley-Blackwell. 2002._Marx After Marxism _encourages readers to understand Karl Marx in new ways, unencumbered by political Marxist interpretations that have long dominated the discussions of both Marxists and non-Marxists. This volume gives a broad and accessible account of Marx's philosophy and emphasizes his relationship to Hegel
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13The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (1): 155-156. 1993.In this book Kovacs interrogates Heidegger's thought in order to cast light on what the author calls the problem of God. The author, who simply assumes that Heidegger's theory can be described as phenomenology, provides a careful, informed study of this.
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32On war, politics and capitalism after 9/11Theoria 53 (110): 74-96. 2006.9/11 represents less a tear in the fabric of history, or a break with the past, than an inflection in ongoing historical processes, such as the continued expansion of capitalism that at some recent time has supposedly attained a level of globalization. This paper considers the relation of war and politics with respect to three instances arising in the wake of 9/11, including the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and finally the global war on terror (GWT). I argue that these wars are superfici…Read more
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3Hegels »glauben Und Wissen« Und Kants Konstruktivistischer Epistemologischer AnsatzHegel-Jahrbuch 7 (1): 188-190. 2005.
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5Reinhard Lauth, "Die tranzendentale Naturlehre Fichtes nach den Prinzipien der Wissenschaftslehre" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 25 (3): 455. 1987.
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1Critical noticesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 11 (1). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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Review of Mary Tiles: Bachelard: Science and Objectivity (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (4): 529-531. 1986.
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1Fichte on knowledge, practice, and historyIn Tom Rockmore & Daniel Breazeale (eds.), After Jena: New Essays on Fichte's Later Philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2008.
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3On Heidegger and National Socialism: A Triple Turn?Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 14 (2-1): 423-439. 1991.
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33Irrationalism: Lukács and the Marxist view of reasonTemple University Press. 1992.INTRODUCTION Irrationalism: Lukacs and the Marxist View of Reason At the very least, Karl Marx and Marxism are committed to a form of con textual ism, ...
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12New perspectives on Fichte (edited book)Humanities Press. 1996.These original essays, never published before, suggest the breadth and richness of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's philosophy and are signs of the contemporary effort to explore the relationship between his system of thought and current philosophical debates. Some of the issues discussed included the relationship between "theoretical" and "practical" reason; the philosophy of language; antifoundationalism; the juridical status of women; duties toward natural beings; and the political implications of th…Read more
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11New essays in Fichte's Foundation of the entire doctrine of scientific knowledge (edited book)Humanity Books. 2001.No Marketing Blurb
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