In the words of eminent Philosopher Cornel West, Tomainis Encyclopedia of American Idealism: Toward a Novel Method and System of Philosophy attempts to "encompass the insights of intellectual giants," both contemporary and past. Tomainis Encyclopedia, which is named in the Hegelian sense of that word, primarily calculates the scholarly question: how might G.W.F. Hegels system and method be overcome? Flipping the Western canon on its head in order to counter the behemoth scope and density of the Hegelian system, the Encyclopedia revises innumerable fundamental tenets of philosophy, producing at its onset a new method of philosophy - Reconstruction, contra Derridas Deconstruction -, and instituting by its conclusion a new philosophical system assembled atop Kant and Hegels school of German Idealism. Beginning with dialectics, Tomaini outlines an approach to rival Hegels and develops this system further. The Encyclopedia of American Idealism also incorporates epistemology, metaphysics, cognitive science, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, metalinguistics, aesthetics, ethics, and politics. Finally, it culminates in a theoretical model for International Relations rooted in Immanuel Kants concept of Perpetual Peace.
P>Review "Tomainis Encyclopedia of American Idealism will definitely bring fresh air into our academic debates, so it fully more than deserves to be published."- Slavoj Zizek, International Director, Birkbeck College, University of London About the Author: G.R. Tomaini is an LGBTQ Federal McNair Scholar at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. His other major works include Ballad of An American Ganymede: Or, Explorations of Queeritude In Fifty Seven Cantos (A Thin Slice of Anxiety Press) and The Rainbow Cantos: Two Attempts At Queering The Canon (Pumpernickel Press). Tomainis poetry is featured by Outcast Press, Selcouth Station Press, Agapanthus Collective, Roi Fainant Press, and Incognito Press. Tomaini is currently working on The Lolito Mysteries: Or, the Obsessional Love Poems of Sigmund Freuds Infamous Patient O. Tomainis works can be found at grtomaini.Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, and public intellectual.- We ship across Australia, including major cities like: Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Newcastle and the Gold Coast