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60Subjectivity and the Ontology of HistoryThe Monist 74 (2): 187-205. 1991.Since history concerns change over time, an ontology of history requires a notion of subjectivity. In the modern tradition, beginning with Kant, ontology has come to be understood as epistemology. But as a result of the failure of foundationalism and the turn to a relativistic theory of knowledge, it is necessary to rethink the idea of history in terms of a conception of the historical subject.
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Symposium: Enlightenment and Rationality in Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern DivisionJournal of Philosophy 84 (11): 682-701. 1987.
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2On War, Politics and Capitalism After 9/11Theoria 53 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. I argue that these wars are superficially d…Read more
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Herméneutique et épistémologie. Gadamer entre Heidegge et HegelArchives de Philosophie 53 (4): 547. 1990.
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51Recent philosophical perspectives on lukács in the westStudies in East European Thought 31 (1): 39-46. 1986.
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5On Hegel's epistemology and contemporary philosophyHumanities Press. 1996.Aimed at specialists, as well as graduate students and select undergraduates, this study centers on Hegel's important, but neglected, theory of knowledge. Professor Rockmore interprets Hegel as reacting to the Kantian effort to reformulate epistemology in the wake of what Kant contends is the failure of earlier, dogmatic theories. Recent work has shown that Hegel's epistemology is a good deal more respectable than has usually been thought. Rockmore's aim is to continue that work in order to brin…Read more
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31Hegel's Circular Epistemology as AntifoundationalismHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 6 (1). 1989.
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Before and After 9/11: Religion, Politics, and EthicsArs Disputandi 7. 2007.My topic concerns the interrelation between religion, politics and ethics in a time of terror, or at least a historical moment when the general problem of terrorism has come to occupy center stage. The frequent view that 9/11 represents a wholly new situation, a break with the past makes it difficult, perhaps impossible to understand it. I believe that it is because 9/11 does not break with but continues tendencies already underway that it occurred and we can understand it. My paper, which insis…Read more
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R Lauth's Hegel Vor Der Wissenschaftslehre (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 16 45-47. 1987.
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25Interpretation as Historical, Constructivism, and HistoryMetaphilosophy 31 (1-2): 184-199. 2000.Interpretation is construed, here, as synonymous with hermeneutics: understood as a source of knowledge – perhaps, after the apparently irremediable decline of epistemological foundationalism, the main modern epistemological strategy. In this sense, there is no difference in principle between epistemology and interpretation; the first is a form of the second.
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22Lukács on Classical German Philosophy and MarxIdealistic Studies 10 (3): 209-231. 1980.The importance of Lukács’ interpretation of classical German philosophy and Marx is almost self-evident. Although Marxists are frequently content to dismiss with contempt a philosophical tradition with which they display scant acquaintance, Lukács’ knowledge of philosophy is obviously extensive. His writings contain what is perhaps the most detailed discussion of the history of philosophy from a Marxist perspective. Further, his influence on the interpretation of Marx has been unequaled over the…Read more
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12Kantian Ethics in Being and TimeJournal of Philosophical Research 31 309-334. 2006.Heidegger’s Being and Time has been accused of espousing empty decisionism and relativism. I argue, first, that in fact Being and Time’s stress on the situated character of human judgment is supplemented by a very Kantian account of being human that defi nes appropriate behavior towards all entities possessing a certain character. Its analysis of conscience and guilt attempts to uncover the existential basis for the distinction Kant draws between the phenomenal and the noumenal aspects of the se…Read more
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35Antifoundationalism old and new (edited book)Temple University Press. 1992.The debate over foundationalism, the viewpoint that there exists some secure foundation upon which to build a system of knowledge, appears to have been resolved and the antifoundationalists have at least temporarily prevailed. From a firmly historical approach, the book traces the foundationalism/antifoundationalism controversy in the work of many important figures Animaxander, Aristotle and Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Hegel and Nietzsche, Habermas and Chisholm, and others throughout the histor…Read more
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Hegel, the concept of man as actor, and modern German philosophyArchives de Philosophie 44 (1): 3-18. 1981.
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14Fichte and Sartre on Cartesian Freedom and Rousseau’s ProblemIn Violetta L. Waibel (ed.), Fichte Und Sartre Über Freiheit: Das Ich Und der Andere, De Gruyter. pp. 93-108. 2015.
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41Marx, Marxism, and philosophical modernityStudies in East European Thought 25 (3): 165-184. 1983.
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