Idealism as Modernism Hegelian Variations

Name: Idealism as Modernism Hegelian Variations
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ISBN: 9780521568739

ISBN-10: 0521568730

ISBN-13: 9780521568739

Edition: 1997

Authors: Robert B. Pippin, Robert B. Pippin

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Modernity has come to refer both to a contested historical category and to an even more contested philosophical and civilisational ideal. In this important collection of essays Robert Pippin takes issue with some prominent assessments of what is or is not philosophically at stake in the idea of a modern revolution in Western civilisation, and presents an alternative view. Professor Pippin disputes many traditional characterisations of the distinctiveness of modern philosophy. In their place he defends claims about agency, freedom, ethical life and modernity itself, all of which are central to the German idealist philosophical tradition, and in particular, to the writings of Hegel. Having…

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List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/28/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 484
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of many books.



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



Introduction: Hegelianism?



The Original Options: Kant Versus Hegel



Kant on the Spontaneity of Mind



On the Moral Foundations of Kant's Rechtslehre



Hegel, Ethical Reasons, Kantian Rejoinders



Avoiding German Idealism: Kant, Hegel, and the Reflective Judgment Problem



Critical Modernism



Hegel, Modernity, and Habermas



Technology as Ideology: Prospects



Greeks, Germans, and Moderns



The Modern World of Leo Strauss



Being, Time, and Politics: The Strauss-Kojeve Debate



Narrating Modernity



Blumenberg and the Modernity Problem



Modern Mythic Meaning: Blumenberg Contra Nietzsche



Modernism and Nihilism



Truth and Lies in the Early Nietzsche



Nietzsche's Alleged Farewell: The PreModern, Modern, and Postmodern Nietzsche



Morality as Psychology, Psychology as Morality: Nietzsche, Eros, and Clumsy Lovers



Heidegger's "Culmination"



On Being Anti-Cartesian: Hegel, Heidegger, Subjectivity, and Sociality



Heideggerean Historicity and Metaphysical Politics



Hegelianism



Hegel's Ethical Rationalism


Name Index


Subject Index