Transcendentalism went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Brandom's new book. An emphasis on our capacity to reason, rather than merely to represent, has been growing in philosophy over the last 30 years, and Brandom has been at the center of this development. This is a paradigm...

Transcendentalism went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Brandom's new book. An emphasis on our capacity to reason, rather than merely to represent, has been growing in philosophy over the last 30 years, and Brandom has been at the center of this development. This is a paradigmatic work of contemporary philosophy.