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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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58Epistemology 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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51Recent philosophical perspectives on lukács in the westStudies in East European Thought 31 (1): 39-46. 1986.
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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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Père Marcel Régnier (1900-1998): Hommage au Père Marcel REGNIER (1900-1998)Archives de Philosophie 62 (3): 429-442. 1999.
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44Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic PhilosophyYale University Press. 2004.In this book—the first large-scale survey of the complex relationship between Hegel’s idealism and Anglo-American analytic philosophy—Tom Rockmore argues that analytic philosophy has consistently misread and misappropriated Hegel. According to Rockmore, the first generation of British analytic philosophers to engage Hegel possessed a limited understanding of his philosophy and of idealism. Succeeding generations continued to misinterpret him, and recent analytic thinkers have turned Hegel into a…Read more
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4On 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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39Knowledge as HistoricalThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 5 123-132. 2000.With few exceptions, philosophers typically have contended that knowledge worthy of the name is beyond time and place. This venerable idea was turned on its head in the emergence of a rival view of knowledge as historical in the wake of the French Revolution. A claim that knowledge is not ahistorical but historical resolves some of these difficulties while creating others. This paper will briefly consider several of these difficulties, including how to argue for this position, the differences be…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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32Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy (Wissenschaftslehre) nova methodo (1796/99) (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (1): 145-146. 1993.Fichte is one of the small handful of philosophers on the highest level. But he is still relatively unknown, even in Germany, for a variety of reasons. These include the difficulty of his thought and its expression, which impedes even native Germans; the relatively greater attention paid to Kant and Hegel, and perhaps even to Schelling; and the lack of a critical edition of his writings. In English-language philosophical circles, beyond these handicaps, knowledge of Fichte is further impeded by …Read more
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15New essays on Fichte's later Jena Wissenschaftslehre (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2002.The philosophical thought of J. G. Fichte, particularly his later work, is at the very center of the paradigm shift under way in the field of German idealism. Crucial to this reassessment is Fichte's _Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo_ of 1796 to 1799, the manuscript at the heart of this essay colleciton and an articulation of the philosopher's _Wissenschaftslehre,_ or overall system of philosophy, which he discussed in lectures at the University of Jena. Coherent, comprehensive, and edited by two…Read more
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15Hegel et le constructivisme épistémologiqueRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 53 (1): 103-113. 2007.Il sera question ici d’examiner le constructivisme hégélien, relativement au problème épistémologique. Le constructivisme, comme concept mathématique, est basé sur la construction de l’objet et remonte à l’antiquité grecque. Le constructivisme philosophique, par contre, est un concept moderne qui applique cette stratégie mathématique au problème de la connaissance. La forme hégélienne, omniprésente dans ses écrits, ne semble jamais avoir reçu l’attention qu’elle mérite. Elle se laisse pourtant e…Read more
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44Fichte in the New WorldThe Owl of Minerva 23 (1): 126-128. 1991.It is a fact that Hegel’s immense presence, and above all his own self-serving reading of the history of philosophy as leading up to his own position, has tended to detract attention from other views. Hegel’s position consciously builds upon its predecessors. If philosophy culminates in Hegel’s thought, then other theories are mainly valuable in that they survive as lower moments of the Hegelian synthesis. Hegel insists that he takes up what is positive in prior views. Hence, the mere fact that …Read more
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19Hegel and the hermeneutics of German idealismInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 3 (1). 1995.
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37Marx, Marxism, and philosophical modernityStudies in East European Thought 25 (3): 165-184. 1983.
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14A Progress Report on Cognitive Foundationalism and Metaphysical RealismEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 39 (1): 53-59. 2014.Metaphysical realism, though not under that name, runs throughout the entire Western tradition at least since Parmenides. His basic ontological claim, that is, that what is is and cannot not be, hence cannot change, influentially creates a central philosophical task. Cognitive foundationalism, whose exemplar is Descartes, is a cognitive strategy intended to respond to metaphysical realism. Plato rejects any form of a representational approach to knowledge in rejecting the backward causal inferen…Read more
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Hegel y los límites del hegelianismo analíticoContrastes: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 8 123-137. 2003.
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4Penelope's Web: Reconstruction of Philosophy and the Relevance of ReasonJournal of Speculative Philosophy 7 (2). 1993.
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