German Idealism as Constructivism is the culmination of many years
of research by distinguished philosopher Tom Rockmore--it is his
definitive statement on the debate about German idealism between
proponents of representationalism and those of constructivism that
still plagues our grasp of the history of German idealism and the
whole epistemological project today. Rockmore argues that German
idealism--which includes iconic thinkers such as Kant, Fichte,
Schelling, and Hegel--can best be understood as a constructivist
project, one that asserts that we cannot know the mind-independent
world as it is but only our own mental construction of it. Since
ancient Greece philosophers have tried to know the world in itself,
an effort that Kant believed had failed. His alternative
strategy--which came to be known as the Copernican revolution--was
that the world as we experience and know it depends on the mind.
Rockmore shows that this project was central to Kant's critical
philosophy and the later German idealists who would follow him. He
traces the different ways philosophers like Fichte, Schelling, and
Hegel formulated their own versions of constructivism. Offering a
sweeping but deeply attuned analysis of a crucial part of the
legacy of German idealism, Rockmore reinvigorates this school of
philosophy and opens up promising new avenues for its study.
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