Tom Rockmore

Tom Rockmore ( born March 4, 1942 in New York City ) is a philosopher who is concerned with political philosophy, German idealism and contemporary continental European philosophy.

Academic career

In 1963 he became Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at Carleton College. From 1972 to 1973 he was an exchange scholar at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1974 at Vanderbilt University. From 1973 to 1980 he was Assistant Professor at Yale University, interrupted by stays in Morse Fellow 1975/76 at the University of Heidelberg and Maître de conférences associé at the University of Nice 1978/79. Following this was Rockmore 1980/81 Visiting Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University, 1981/82 Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Tübingen from 1982 to 1985 and associate professor at Fordham University. He stayed 1985/86 at the Université Laval in Paris and 1986/87 as a Senior Research Fellow at Wesleyan University. From 1987 to 2007 he was a professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. At the University of Poitiers, he habilitated in 1994 Director of Research ( " diriger of recherches " ), and held in the spring of 2004 at Temple University as a Distinguished Professor at. Since 2007 he is a Distinguished Professor at the McAnulty College Duquesne University. In the spring of 2007 and 2008 he was a Fulbright Scholar in each case as a visiting professor at Peking University.

Rockmore is co-editor or reviewer of numerous philosophical journals and a member of numerous scientific societies. He speaks a number of languages, English and French as their mother tongue and German, Greek, Latin, along with Russian and Chinese.

Work

Rockmore works for all modern philosophy. He explores in particular the epistemological legacy of German idealism and the relationship between philosophy and politics. Rockmore has devoted himself to the philosophers of German idealism Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the work of Karl Marx and the 20th century philosopher Martin Heidegger, Jurgen Habermas and George Lukacs. Lately, he deals with a new theory that knowledge is basically ( " intrinsical " ) is historically.

In his book Marx after Marxism Rockmore represents the theses of failure of Marxism as a political alternative after the collapse of Soviet power block 1991 and, beginning with Friedrich Engels, a fundamental misunderstanding of Marx by the Marxists.

Works

• Fichte, Marx and German Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1980
• With T. Blakeley, J. Colbert and W. Gavin: Soviet Marxism and Alternatives, Reidel, Boston, 1981
• Hegel 's Circular Epistemology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1986
• Habermas on Historical Materialism, Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, Bloomington and London, 1989
• Irrationalism. Lukács and the Marxist View of Reason, Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1992
• Hegel. Avant et après Éditions Criterion, Paris 1992 English edition: Before and After Hegel: A Historical Introduction Berkeley 19931, with a new preface, [ ... ] A Historical Introduction to Hegel 's Thought Hackett, Indianapolis 2003
• Italian edition Rome 1996
• Romanian edition Bucharest 1999
• Chinese edition Beijing 2005

• Heidegger and French philosophy, translated into German by Thomas Laugstien, to cleats -Verlag, Lüneburg 2000
• Japanese edition Tokyo 2006

• Japanese edition Hokkaido 1999

• Chinese edition Beijing 2008

Publication

• Lukács Today, with an introduction, Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston l988
• With Joseph Margolis: Victor Farias, Heidegger and Nazism, Temple University Press, Philadelphia and London 1989
• With Joseph Margolis: The Heidegger Case: On Philosophy and Politics, Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1992
• Beth Singer: Antifoundationalism Old and New, Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1992
• Daniel Breazeale: New Perspectives on Fichte, Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey in 1996
• Hegel 's Lectures on the History of Philosophy, with an introduction, Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey in 1996
• Vladimir Zeman: Transcendental Philosophy and Everyday Life, with an introduction, Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey in 1997
• En Hommage à Mikel Dufrenne, in: Bulletin de la Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Française Volume XI, No. 1, Spring 1999
• Metaphysics. Proceedings of the World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 2, Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green 1999
• Heidegger, German Idealism and Neo - Kantianism, Humanity Books, Amherst 2000
• With Joseph Margolis: The Philosophy of Interpretation, in: metaphilosophy, Volume 31, No. 1/2, January 2000 Other formats: Interpretation in Art, Literature and Science, Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge 2000