About the Author

Tom Rockmore is the Distinguished Humanities Chair Professor and professor of philosophy in the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at the Peking University and was formerly a McAnulty College Distinguished Professor at Duquesne University. He is the author of numerous books, including Kant and Phenomenology and Art and Truth after Plato, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"[Rockmore] has a breadth of knowledge about the period and the history of philosophy. Many readers will find useful insights and summaries of challenging texts. One hopes his book will inspire more extensive reflection on the role of constructivism during the period, both in its theoretical and practical aspects."-- "British Journal for the History of Philosophy"

"An extremely well-documented, highly valuable, and very intelligent account and analysis of the problem of knowledge in German idealism from Kant to Hegel. While the epistemological effort of German idealists has increasingly attracted attention in recent years, this is the first thorough effort to understand the German idealist approach to the problem of knowledge as cognitive constructivism. This is a highly original and well-argued interpretation."----Marina F. Bykova, North Carolina State University

"I recommend this book very strongly. Rockmore simultaneously fills multiple needs in current philosophical debates about German idealism, advancing new readings of the authors he discusses--from Kant to Fichte to Hegel--as well as a new way of reading constructivism as a whole. The effect is a new vision of German idealism, one of the most important moments in the history of philosophy."--Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel, University of Ottawa