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Kant and Idealism

By Tom Rockmore

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0300120087, 9780300120080, 9780300134735
Open Library ID
OL9856990M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
874 kB (894938 bytes)
Pages
295\295
Time added
2011-01-26 19:25:26

Description

Distinguished scholar and philosopher Tom Rockmore examines one of the great lacunae of contemporary philosophical discussion—idealism. Addressing the widespread confusion about the meaning and use of the term, he surveys and classifies some of its major forms, giving particular attention to Kant. He argues that Kant provides the all-important link between three main types of idealism: those associated with Plato, the new way of ideas, and German idealism. The author also makes a case for the contemporary relevance of at least one strand in the tangled idealist web, a strand most clearly identified with Kant: constructivism. In terms of the philosophical tradition, Rockmore contends, constructivism offers a lively, interesting, and important approach to knowledge after the decline of metaphysical realism.

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