Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. He delivered the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford and the Woodbridge Lectures at Columbia University. Brandom is the author of many books, including Making It Explicit, Reason in Philosophy, and From Empiricism to Expressivism (all from Harvard).
A Spirit of Trust will be the book that finally moves analytic philosophy from its Kantian phase to its Hegelian phase. Brandom has succeeded in bridging both the history-systematic and the continental-analytic divides in contemporary philosophy. To say that this book is highly anticipated would be a gross understatement.--Dean Moyar, Johns Hopkins University This long-awaited book has been thirty years in the making. Brandom's A Spirit of Trust aspires to do for Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit what Strawson's The Bounds of Sense did for Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason to transpose a seminal work of German Idealism into the terminological idiom and argumentative key of anglophone analytic philosophy--not only to render a past classic newly available to the present, but to transform the philosophical present through such a re-inheritance of its past.--James Conant, University of Chicago