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In Kant's Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

ISBN: 978-1-405-15231-0

May 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

224 pages

Description
In Kant’s Wake evaluates the four main trends in philosophy in the twentieth century — Marxism, Anglo-American analytic, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy — and argues that all four evolved in reaction to Kant’s fascinating and demanding philosophy.

  • Gives a sense of the main thinkers and problems, and the nature of their debates;
  • Provides an intriguing assessment of the accomplishments of twentieth-century philosophy.
About the Author
Tom Rockmore is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. His previous publications include Cognition: An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1997), Marx after Marxism (Blackwell, 2002), Before and After Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel’s Thought (2003), The Philosophical Challenges of September 11 (edited with Joseph Margolis and Armen T. Marsoobian, Blackwell, 2004), On Constructivist Epistemology (2005), and Hegel, Idealism and Analytic Philosophy (2005).
Features

  • Evaluates the different strands twentieth-century philosophy: Marxism, Anglo-American analytic philosophy, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy;
  • Argues that these schools of thought all evolved in reaction to Kant’s fascinating and demanding philosophy;
  • Gives a sense of the main thinkers and problems, and the nature of their debates;
  • Provides an intriguing assessment of the accomplishments of twentieth-century philosophy.