•  46
    Avoiding German Idealism
    Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 977-997. 1995.
  •  46
    Introductions to Nietzsche (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2012.
    Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to power and the eternal recurrence, his perspectivism, his theorie…Read more
  •  45
    Hegel on Political Philosophy and Political Actuality
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 53 (5): 401-416. 2010.
    Hegel is the most prominent philosopher who argued that 'philosophy is its own time comprehended in thought', and he argued for this with an elaborate theory about the necessarily historical and experiential content of normative principles and ideals, especially, in his own historical period, the ideal of a free life. His insistence that philosophy must attend to the 'actuality' of the norms it considers is quite controversial, often accused of accommodation with the status quo, a 'might makes r…Read more
  •  45
    Fatalism in American film noir: some cinematic philosophy
    University of Virginia Press. 2012.
    Introduction -- Trapped by oneself in Jacques Tourneur's Out of the past -- "A deliberate, intentional fool" in Orson Welles's The lady from Shanghai -- Sexual agency in Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street -- "Why didn't you shoot again, baby?": concluding remarks.
  •  44
    Introduction: Scientific History
    with Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
    In his inaugural lecture at Cambridge as Regius Professor of Modern History in 1895, Lord Acton urged that the historian deliver moral judgments on the figures of his research. Acton declaimed: I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.1 In 1902, the year after Acton died, the …Read more
  •  42
    Hegel and Institutional Rationality
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 39 (S1): 1-25. 2001.
  •  41
    Doer and Deed: Responses to Acampora and Anderson
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 44 (2): 181-195. 2013.
    I am very grateful to both commentators for these thoughtful and stimulating questions and remarks and especially for the care and generous charity animating their summations of the position I defend in the book. That has not always been the case in discussions of the book.Both critics rightly note the importance of the French moralistes in my attempt to understand why Nietzsche should have said that “psychology” might now (that is, for him) become once again the “queen of the sciences” and so o…Read more
  •  40
    Theory’s Empire: Reflections on a Vocation for Critical Inquiry
    with Stanley Fish, Peter Galison, Sander L. Gilman, Miriam Hansen, Harry Harootunian, Fredric Jameson, Jerome McGann, J. Hillis Miller, and Robert Morgan
    Critical Inquiry 30 (2): 396. 2004.
  •  40
    Nietzche and the Melancholy of Modernity
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 66 (2). 1999.
  •  40
    Apperception and Difference Between Kantian and Hegelian Idealism
    Proceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress 2 (2): 535-550. 1989.
  •  40
    Hegel's Practical Philosophy: The Realization of Freedom'
    In Karl Ameriks (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 180--199. 2000.
  •  40
    Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 31 (2): 423-441. 2008.
  •  39
    Response to David Kolb
    The Owl of Minerva 30 (2): 277-286. 1999.
  •  39
    Hegel on Ethics and Politics (edited book)
    with Otfried Höffe and Nicholas Walker
    Cambridge University Press. 2004.
    This series makes available in English some important work by German philosophers on major figures in the German philosophical tradition. The volumes will provide critical perspectives on philosophers of great significance to the Anglo-American philosophical community, perspectives that have been largely ignored except by a handful of writers on German philosophy. The dissemination of this work will be of enormous value to Anglophone students and scholars of the history of German philosophy. Thi…Read more
  •  35
    Response to Critics
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 53 (5): 506-521. 2010.
    I offer responses to criticisms about and questions concerning my book, Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life, 1 first raised at a conference at Kalamazoo College and now published in this issue of Inquiry. There are responses to Richard Peterson, James Bohman, Hans-Herbert Kögler, David Ingram and Theodore R. Schatzki
  •  34
    Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended, failed even, in the German Idealist tradition. In The Culmination, Robert B. Pippin explores the ramifications of this charge through a masterful survey of Western philosophy, especially Heidegger's critiques of Hegel and Kant. Pippin argues that Heidegger's basic concern was to determine sources of meaning for human life, particularly those that had been obscured by Western philosophy's attention to reason. The Culmination offers a new interpreta…Read more
  •  34
    Replies to critics
    European Journal of Philosophy 27 (4): 1065-1074. 2019.
  •  32
    American Memory in Henry James: Void and Value
    Common Knowledge 14 (1): 168-168. 2008.
  •  31
    Horstmann, Siep, and German Idealism
    European Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 85-96. 1994.
    Die Grenzen der Vernunft. Eine Untersuchung zu Zielen und Motiven des Deutschen Idealismus. By Rolf‐Peter Horstmann. Frankfurt a.M.: Anton Hain, 1991, 321 pp. ISBN 3–445‐08568‐4Praktische Philosophie im Deutschen Idealismus. By Ludwig Siep. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1992, 348 pp. ISBN 3–518‐28635‐8 pb
  •  31
    Truth and Lies in the Early Nietzsche
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 11 35-52. 1996.