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.

“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.”

• IntroductionONE / From Platonism to PhenomenologyTWO / Kant’s Epistemological Shift to PhenomenologyTHREE / Hegel’s Phenomenology as EpistemologyFOUR / Husserl’s Phenomenological EpistemologyFIVE / Heidegger’s Phenomenological OntologySIX / Kant, Merleau-Ponty’s Descriptive Phenomenology, and the Primacy of PerceptionCONCLUSION / On Overcoming the Epistemological Problem through PhenomenologyNotesIndex

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.

“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.”

• IntroductionONE / From Platonism to PhenomenologyTWO / Kant’s Epistemological Shift to PhenomenologyTHREE / Hegel’s Phenomenology as EpistemologyFOUR / Husserl’s Phenomenological EpistemologyFIVE / Heidegger’s Phenomenological OntologySIX / Kant, Merleau-Ponty’s Descriptive Phenomenology, and the Primacy of PerceptionCONCLUSION / On Overcoming the Epistemological Problem through PhenomenologyNotesIndex

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.

“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.”

• IntroductionONE / From Platonism to PhenomenologyTWO / Kant’s Epistemological Shift to PhenomenologyTHREE / Hegel’s Phenomenology as EpistemologyFOUR / Husserl’s Phenomenological EpistemologyFIVE / Heidegger’s Phenomenological OntologySIX / Kant, Merleau-Ponty’s Descriptive Phenomenology, and the Primacy of PerceptionCONCLUSION / On Overcoming the Epistemological Problem through PhenomenologyNotesIndex