David’s Reviews > Before and After Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel's Thought > Status Update

really curious about this!

it's interesting but i think the background of its writing makes it a bit weak. according to the preface, rockmore wrote it for french college students. so there are places (the most notable so far is Reinhold's "capacity of representation") where rockmore seems to think the reader has some knowledge of that concept itself but not the historical context surrounding. so you the name of this idea, and then maimon's orthodox Kantian rejection of it, schulze's skepticist rejection of it, and then Fichte's rejection of it (where some semblance of the "capacity of representation" is finally explained. but i suppose these are issues endemic to very small sort of introductory book.