tom rockmore

Engages with one of the oldest philosophical problems--the relationship between thought and being--and offers a fresh perspective with which to approach the long history of this puzzle. In After Parmenides, Tom Rockmore takes us all the way back to the beginning of Western philosophy,...

Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato's challenge was resolved long ago. In Art and Truth...

Presents a philosopher's response to the series of events known as '9/11' and the global culture in the United States - and global society - that followed. This work provides an analysis of the emerging post-9/11 culture, situating it in a broad context that...

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...

This engrossing biography of highly influential Czech novelist and short-story writer Franz Kafka emphasizes the cultural and historical contexts of his fiction and focuses for the first time on his complex relationship with his father.Author: Tom RockmoreISBN-10: 0300120087ISBN-13: 9780300120080Publisher: Yale University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2004Pages:...

Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century--and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept. His views influenced a variety of important later thinkers, such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, who eventually...

This intellectually discomfiting, disturbingly provocative, yet still thoroughly scholarly Handbook reproduces the intellectual ferment that accompanied the Russian Revolution including the wholly polarising effect at that time of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The Palgrave Handbook of Leninist Political Philosophy does not settle for one safe...