Synopses & Reviews
In this volume Robert Pippin disputes many traditional characterisations of the distinctiveness of modern philosophy.
Review
"...Pippen's project is pioneering a new way of reading the history of philosophy..." www.wordtrade.com"There is much food for thought in this collection of essays. Pippin has a rich sense of Hegel's contribution to contemporary issues, and draws creatively on Hegel's dialogue with." Review of Metaphysics
Synopsis
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. This volume will interest philosophers, literary theorists, and social and political theorists.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Hegelianism?; Part 1. The Original Options: Kant Versus Hegel: 2. Kant on the spontaneity of mind; 3. On the moral foundations of Kantâs Rechtslehre; 4. Hegel, ethical reasons, Kantian rejoinders; 5. Avoiding German idealism: Kant, Hegel, and the reflective judgment problem; Part II. Critical Modernism: 6. Hegel, modernity, and Habermas; 7. Technology as ideology: prospects; Part III. Greeks, Germans and Moderns: 8. The modern world of Leo Strauss; 9. Being, time, and politics: the Strauss-Kojève debate; Part IV. Narrating Modernity: 10. Blumenberg and the modernity problem; 11. Modern mythic meaning: Blumenberg contra Nietzsche; Part V. Modernism and Nihilism: 12. Truth and lies in early Nietzsche; 13. Nietzscheâs alleged farewell: the Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Nietzsche; 14. Morality as psychology; psychology as morality: Nietzsche, Eros, and clumsy lovers; Part VI. Heideggerâs âCulminationâ: 15. On being anti-Cartesian: Hegel, Heidegger, subjectivity and sociality; 16. Heideggerian postmodernism and political metaphysics; Part VII. Hegelianism: 17. Hegelâs ethical rationalism.