Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century-and 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. But here Tom Rockmore argues for a return to phenomenology's origins in epistemology, and he does so by locating its roots in the work of Immanuel Kant.
Kant and Phenomenology traces the formulation of Kant's phenomenological approach back to the second edition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In response to various criticisms of the first edition, Kant more forcefully put forth a constructivist theory of knowledge. This shift in Kant's thinking challenged the representational approach to epistemology, and it is this turn, Rockmore contends, that makes Kant the first great phenomenologist. He then follows this phenomenological line through the work of Kant's idealist successors, Fichte and Hegel. Steeped in the sources and literature it examines, Kant and Phenomenology persuasively reshapes our conception of both of its main subjects.
By:
Tom Rockmore
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 33mm
ISBN: 9780226817859
ISBN 10: 0226817857
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 15 February 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
IntroductionONE / From Platonism to Phenomenology TWO / Kant's Epistemological Shift to Phenomenology THREE / Hegel's Phenomenology as Epistemology FOUR / Husserl's Phenomenological Epistemology FIVE / Heidegger's Phenomenological Ontology SIX / Kant, Merleau-Ponty's Descriptive Phenomenology, and the Primacy of Perception CONCLUSION / On Overcoming the Epistemological Problem through Phenomenology Notes Index
Tom Rockmore is professor of philosophy and a McAnulty College Distinguished Professor at Duquesne University. He is the author of numerous books, including Kant and Idealism; In Kant's Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century; and Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic Philosophy.
Reviews for Kant and Phenomenology
This is a clear, concise, and enjoyable read by a senior scholar who is an expert on all aspects of German idealism. Tom Rockmore is uniquely qualified to establish clearly the phenomenological-epistemological narrative extending from Kant to Husserl, Heidegger, and beyond. His constructivist reading of Kant along with his contrast of Kant with Husserl makes his case convincingly in a work of exceptional clarity and rigorous documentation. -- Alan Olson, Boston University
