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, when Parmenides asserted that thought and being are the same. This idea created a division between...

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. In Kant's Wake gives a sense of the main thinkers and problems, and the nature of their debates. It provides an intriguing...

Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century. 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 turned phenomenology away from questions of knowledge. Here, Tom Rockmore argues for a return to phenomenology’s...