Tom Rockmore is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. His books include "Before and After Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel's Thought "(California, 1993), "Fichte, Marx, and the German Tradition" (1989) and "Habermas on Historical Materialism" (1989). He is coeditor of the translation of "Heidegger and Nazism" by Victor Far?as (1989), whose publication in France sparked the Heidegger controversy.