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Author: Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University)
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:
Width: 1.50cm
, Height: 0.10cm
, Length: 2.30cm
Weight: 0.510kg
ISBN: 9780226272634
ISBN 10: 022627263
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 17 February 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Art and Truth after Plato is a highly important contribution to the philosophy of art, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy generally. Rockmore successfully explores one of the fundamental problems in the history of philosophy, namely, appearance and reality, mimesis and representation, and their bearing on the question of truth, and he does so in a way that is engaging and highly readable. Indeed, the literary style of Rockmore is exceptionally lucid and clear. His work easily ranks with the best in contemporary philosophy."" (Alan Olson, Boston University)"
""Art and Truth after Plato is a highly important contribution to the philosophy of art, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy generally. Rockmore successfully explores one of the fundamental problems in the history of philosophy, namely, appearance and reality, mimesis and representation, and their bearing on the question of truth, and he does so in a way that is engaging and highly readable. Indeed, the literary style of Rockmore is exceptionally lucid and clear. His work easily ranks with the best in contemporary philosophy."" (Alan Olson, Boston University)
Known for his habit of providing a grand sweep of the history and philosophically pertinent literature of (often) poorly grasped, contentious questions--the meaning of Kant's 'Copernican revolution, ' Hegel's 'circular epistemology, ' the actual relationship between Kant and German Idealism, among his familiar topics--Tom Rockmore now advances a most instructive overview of Plato's classic charge against the cognitive competence of the fine arts. Quite literally, Rockmore canvasses the entire philosophical tradition in fashioning a fresh, indeed a legible compendium of the essential disputes a responsible reader will want to have in hand to assess the question's present state of play or to enter the lists effectively. --Joseph Margolis, Temple University
Author Information
Tom Rockmore is a McAnulty College Distinguished Professor and professor of philosophy at Duquesne University and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at Peking University. He is the author of many books, most recently Before and After 9/11: A Philosophical Examination of Globalization, Terror, and History and Kant and Phenomenology, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
