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Title:Before & After Hegel : A Historical Introduction to Hegel's Thought
Author:Tom Rockmore
ISBN:0872206483 : 9780872206489
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:224
Weight: .388 Kg.
Published:Hackett Publishing - March 2003
List Price: 29.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:PHILOSOPHY


In this engaging and accessible introduction to Hegel's theory of knowledge, Tom Rockmore presents the philosopher's ideas the way Hegel himself saw them: as coming to grips with, even competing with, prior philosophical positions. Carefully laying out the philosophical tradition of German idealism, he concisely explicates the theories of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling, essential to an understanding of Hegel's thought. Rockmore shows how Hegel first formulates his own position in relation to the philosophical discussion of his own historical moment, before extending the discussion, in a second phase, to the entire historical tradition. The Hegelian system, according to Rockmore, remains an essentially modern conception of knowledge, surprisingly relevant to our contemporary intellectual situation. Rockmore's remarkably lucid book will interest general readers as well as students of philosophy, intellectual history, politics, culture, and society.