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68All for one and one for allPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 103 (3): 728-733. 2021.Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 103, Issue 3, Page 728-733, November 2021.
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3How to Overcome Oneself Nietzsche on FreedomIn Renate Reschke & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Nietzsche Und Europa – Nietzsche in Europa, Akademie Verlag. pp. 129-144. 2007.
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19History, Metaphors, Fables. A Hans Blumenberg ReaderPhilosophical Quarterly 71 (3): 669-672. 2021.History, Metaphors, Fables. A Hans Blumenberg Reader. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by BajohrHannes, FuchsFlorian, and KrollJoe Paul.
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16The Philosophical Hitchcock: “Vertigo” and the Anxieties of UnknowingnessUniversity of Chicago Press. 2017.On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness, is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative philosophers, and so it is also much more. Even as he provides detailed readings of each scene in the film, and its story of obsession and fantasy, Pippin reflects more broadly on the modern world depicted in Hitchcock’s films. Hitchcock’s characters, Pippi…Read more
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7The Rise of Neo-Kantianism: German Academic Philosophy Between Idealism and Positivism (review)Philosophical Review 102 (4): 594-596. 1993.
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12The Philosophy of F.J. Schelling: History, System, and Freedom (review)Philosophical Review 96 (4): 620-623. 1987.
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71Reconstructivism: On Honneth’s HegelianismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 40 (8): 725-741. 2014.In this paper I express enthusiastic solidarity with Axel Honneth's inheritance and transformation of several core Hegelian ideas, and express one major disagreement. The disagreement is not so much with anything he says, as it is with what he doesn't say. It concerns his rejection of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, and so his attempt to reconstruct Hegel's practical philosophy without reliance on that theoretical philosophy. This attitude towards Hegel's Science of Logic – that it involves a “m…Read more
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4Rigorism and the 'New Kant'In Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Ralph Schumacher (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 313-326. 2001.
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6Jean-François Kervégan: L’effectif et le rationnel. Hegel et l’esprit objectifIn Jürgen Stolzenberg, Karl Ameriks & Fred Rush (eds.), Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus / International Yearbook of German Idealism : Romantik / Romanticism, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 328-336. 2009.
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29On Idealism: Responses to Markus Gabriel, James Kreines, Christopher Yeomans, Purushottama Bilimoria, Gene Flenady, Lorenzo Sala, and Jonathan ShaheenAustralasian Philosophical Review 2 (4): 440-457. 2018.Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2018, Page 440-457.
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27Reading HegelAustralasian Philosophical Review 2 (4): 365-382. 2018.The project defended in this article is a forty-plus year attempt to argue for the continuing philosophical importance of the positions in theoretical and practical and aesthetic philosophy defended in what has come to be known as ‘German Idealism’ (or ‘post-Kantian German philosophy.’) For the most part this has concerned Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and the relations among them, with most of the attention focused on Hegel. The Hegel interpretation has been criticized for its claim about the…Read more
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20Interanimations: Receiving Modern German PhilosophyUniversity of Chicago Press. 2015.In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philosophy itself. In doing so, he reconceives philosophical scholarship as a kind of network of philosophical interanimations, one in which major positions in the history of philosophy, when they are themselves properly understood within their own historic…Read more
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181This is the most important book on Hegel to have appeared in the past ten years. Robert Pippin offers a completely new interpretation of Hegel's idealism, which focuses on Hegel's appropriation and development of kant's theoretical project. Hegel is presented neither as a precritical metaphysician nor as a social theorist, but as a critical philosopher whose disagreements with Kant, especially on the issue of intuitions, enrich the idealist arguments against empiricism, realism and naturalism. I…Read more
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54"Critical Inquiry" and Critical Theory: A Short History of NonbeingCritical Inquiry 30 (2): 424. 2004.
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114Idealism and Anti-idealism in Modern European ThoughtJournal of Speculative Philosophy 33 (3): 349-367. 2019.The project from which this essay is drawn is a philosophical engagement with the tradition of anti-Hegelianism in modern European philosophy, a critique that I want to show amounts to an attack on Hegel's version of idealism and ultimately on philosophy as traditionally understood. Idealism, in this tradition, should not be understood as a claim about the mind-dependence of the world, or about a mind-imposed structure in experience, or as a so-called objective idealism, but first and foremost a…Read more
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Idealismus und Anti-Idealismus. Die Unendlichkeit des Denkens und radikale EndlichkeitIn Thomas Khurana, Dirk Quadflieg, Juliane Rebentisch, Dirk Setton & Francesca Raimondi (eds.), Negativität: Kunst - Recht - Politik, Suhrkamp. pp. 391-400. 2018.
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406The Unavailability of the OrdinaryPolitical Theory 31 (3): 335-358. 2003.In Natural Right and History Leo Strauss argues for the continuing “relevance” of the classical understanding of natural right. Since this relevance is not a matter of a direct return, or a renewed appreciation that a neglected doctrine is simply true, the meaning of this claim is some- what elusive. But it is clear enough that the core of Strauss’s argument for that relevance is a claim about the relation between human experience and philosophy. Strauss argues that the classical understanding a…Read more
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16Toril Moi. Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 304 pp (review)Critical Inquiry 45 (2): 567-569. 2019.
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13Peter E. Gordon. Adorno and Existence. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. 272 pp (review)Critical Inquiry 45 (1): 242-243. 2018.
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21Finite and Absolute IdealismIn Sebastian Gardner & Matthew Grist (eds.), The Transcendental Turn, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.Any interpretation of Hegel which stresses both his deep dependence on and radical revision of Kant must account for the nature of the difference between what Hegel calls a merely finite idealism and a so-called ’Absolute Idealism’. Such a clarification in turn depends on understanding Hegel’s claim to have preserved the distinguishability of intuition and concept, but to have insisted on their inseparability, or, to have defended their ’organic’ rather than ’mechanical’ relation. This is the ma…Read more
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25Hegel’s Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in “the Science of Logic”University of Chicago Press. 2018.Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, The Science of Logic. This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists can only be properly understood as a “logic,” or a “science of pure thinking.” Since he also wrote that the proper object of any such logic is pure thinking itself, it has always been unclear in just what sense such a science could be a “metaphysics.” Ro…Read more
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