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 importan...

Distinguished scholar and philosopher Tom Rockmore examines one of the great lacunae of contemporary philosophical discussion – idealism. Addressing the widespread confusion about the meaning and use of the term, he surveys and classifies some of its...