Robert B. Pippin
Auteur de Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture
A propos de l'auteur
Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Henry James and Modern Moral Life. After the Beautiful, several books on modern German philosophy, and five books on film and philosophy, most recently, Filmed Thought: afficher plus Cinema as Reflective Form, also published by the University of Chicago Press. afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Robert B. Pippin
Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture (1991) 84 exemplaires
Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy) (2010) 41 exemplaires
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy (Castle… (2010) 36 exemplaires
Hegel on Ethics and Politics (The German Philosophical Tradition) (2004) — Directeur de publication — 24 exemplaires
Od Hegla do westerna 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Philosopher's Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant (2000) — Introduction — 200 exemplaires
Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of David Grene (1999) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Pippin, Robert B.
- Nom légal
- Pippin, Robert Buford
- Date de naissance
- 1948-09-14
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Études
- Pennsylvania State University (MA|1972|Ph.D|1974)
Trinity College (BA|1970) - Professions
- philosopher
professor - Organisations
- University of Chicago
University of California, San Diego - Prix et distinctions
- German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2016)
American Philosophical Society (2008)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007)
Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2003) - Courte biographie
- Robert B. Pippin is an American philosopher best known for his work on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He has also researched Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marcel Proust, Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Henry James and the philosophy of film.
Robert Pippin is one of the best-known researchers in the field of German idealism, especially Kant and Hegel. His research interests lie in the history of philosophy, epistemology and ethics. In recent years he has also paid intensive attention to research into theories of modernity.
Pippin has a range of interdisciplinary interests, particularly the relationship between philosophy and literature. He has written a book on Henry James and articles on Proust, modern art and contemporary film. Among other things, he dealt with the fatalism in American film noir and the importance of the western directors Howard Hawks and John Ford for political philosophy.
Membres
Critiques
Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in… par Robert B. Pippin
Hegel makes the key and disarming arguments that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it achieves its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness in the most famous chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit. Hegel on Self-Consciousness offers a ground-breaking new understanding of these revolutionary assertions, tracing their origins to Kant's philosophy and establishing their continuing significance for modern thought.
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Quite a conundrum with this one, since it won't be much use to you if you haven't read Hegel, but if you've read Hegel you've probably read it with the exact opposite assumptions to those claims with which Pippin convincingly claims you should be reading. In short: Hegel should be read as a Kantian. The Phenomenology of Spirit shows that self-consciousness is needed for any form of knowledge, and discusses a variety of forms of self-consciousness, most of which fail in the goal of providing us with the opportunity to know anything. Only one doesn't: modern, absolute knowledge. This is, in a sense, what is then laid out in the Science of Logic, which is not about crazy metaphysical monism of the mind, nor a mere category theory (that is, a theory of the concepts *we* use). It's something in between: both an account of the concepts we use, and a defense of the claim that they are also really determinate of the possibility of knowledge.
That's all pretty convincing, actually. The obvious flaw in the book is it's failure to look beyond Hegel at all: it's all well and good to claim that 'modern' Absolute Knowledge provides us with knowledge, but that's not actually a defense of modernity. That would require a defense of capitalism, amongst other unfortunate social features, or, alternatively, a critique of those features. But Pippin's dismissive attitude towards later Hegelians (e.g., the Frankfurt School) makes it impossible for him to take this next step. His book does, however, allow for the possibility of taking it.… (plus d'informations)
This is like the book I've been hoping for so long! Except not quite.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 26
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 643
- Popularité
- #39,230
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 82
- Langues
- 2