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39Heideggerean Postmodernism and Metaphysical PoliticsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 4 (1): 17-37. 1996.
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48Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian VariationsCambridge University Press. 1997.'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…Read more
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73The belated genre classification, “film noir,” is a contested one, much more so than “Western” or “musical.”2 However, there is wide agreement that there were many stylistic conventions common to the new treatment of crime dramas prominent in the 1940s: grim urban settings, often very cramped interiors, predominantly night time scenes, and so-called “low key” lighting and unusual camera angles.3 But there were also important thematic elements in common.Two are especially interesting. First, noirs …Read more
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7Fichte's Alleged Subjective, Psychological, One-Sided IdealismIn Sally Sedgwick (ed.), The Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy: Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, Cambridge University Press. pp. 147--170. 2000.
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103The Significance of Self‐Consciousness in Idealist Theories of LogicProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 114 (2pt2): 145-166. 2014.Among Kant's innovations in the understanding of logic (‘general logic’) were his claims that logic had no content of its own, but was the form of the thought of any possible content, and that the unit of meaning, the truth-bearer, judgement, was essentially apperceptive. Judging was implicitly the consciousness of judging. This was for Kant a logical truth. This article traces the influence of the latter claim on Fichte, and, for most of the discussion, on Hegel. The aim is to understand the re…Read more
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1412 Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the metaphysics of modernityIn Keith Ansell-Pearson (ed.), Nietzsche and Modern German Thought, Routledge. pp. 282. 1991.
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1Concluding RemarksIn Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Princeton University Press. pp. 88-98. 2010.
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44Hegel on Ethics and Politics (edited book)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
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112McDowell's germans: Response to 'on Pippin's postscript'European Journal of Philosophy 15 (3). 2007.As McDowell makes clear in ‘On Pippin’s Postscript’ and in many other works, the interpretive question at issue in this exchange—how to understand the relation between Kant and Hegel, especially as that concerns Kant’s central ‘Deduction’ argument in the Critique of Pure Reason1—brings into the foreground an even larger problem on which all the others depend: the right way to understand at the highest level of generality the relation between active or spontaneous thought and our receptive and co…Read more
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120The Idealism of Transcendental ArgumentsIdealistic Studies 18 (2): 97-106. 1988.Many philosophers have been suspicious of any “transcendental argument”. In the literature concerned with arguments such as Kant’s Transcendental Deduction, or the “private language” or “other minds” argument, there have been frequent charges that such attempts are “impossible,” spurious, or, even more frequently, incomplete, that their success depends on some controversial philosophical position, such as verificationism. A recent addition to the latter kind of charge is that a successful TA mus…Read more
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6¿Lo mío y lo tuyo? El Estado kantianoAnuario Filosófico 37 (80): 595-630. 2004.Kant says there is a duty to exit the state of nature, to enter into a civil state. He says this is a duty of right, not a duty of virtue. The article discusses the argument he gives to support this view, as well as the contemporary discussion on the relationship between this duty of right and the categorical imperative. The discussion is full of implications. Particularly significant is the view of the Kantian state emerging from it, which challenges the conventional account: instead of a state…Read more
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2AcknowledgmentsIn Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Princeton University Press. 2010.
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Kant and the Problem of Transcendental Philosophy: Unity and Form in the "Critique of Pure Reason."Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. 1974.
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195Recognition and Reconciliation: Actualized Agency in Hegel’s Jena PhenomenologyIn Bert van den Brink & David Owen (eds.), Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory, Cambridge University Press. pp. 57--78. 2003.
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1010 Gadamer's HegelIn Robert J. Dostal (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer, Cambridge University Press. pp. 225. 2002.
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158What is the question for which Hegel's theory of recognition is the answer?European Journal of Philosophy 8 (2). 2000.
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6Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political PhilosophyYale University Press. 2010.In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ _Red River_ and John Ford’s _The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance_ and _The Searchers._ Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its “second founding,” or the western expansion. His central question co…Read more
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1Ernest Joos, Poetic Truth and Transvaluation in Nietzsche's Zarathustra: A Hermeneutic Study Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 8 (2): 59-61. 1988.
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54Hegel on Political Philosophy and Political ActualityInquiry: 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
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5As a representative of the humanities, I understood my charge this afternoon to be to offer some sort of response to what is at the very least a book publishing or market phenomenon – the flood of recent books especially in the last decade by neuroscientists, primatologists, computer scientists, evolutionary biologists and economists about what had traditionally been considered issues in the humanities - issues like morality, politics, the nature of rationality, what makes a response to an objec…Read more
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5ContentsIn Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Princeton University Press. 2010.
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6Henry James and Modern Moral LifeCambridge University Press. 1999.This important book argues that Henry James reveals in his fiction a sophisticated theory of moral understanding and moral motivation. The claim is that in his novels and short stories James is engaged in a distinctive kind of original thinking and reflecting on modern moral life. Sensitive to the precarious and extremely confusing situation of moral understanding in modern societies, James avoids skepticism and presents powerfully the full nature of moral claims and moral dependence. The book i…Read more
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8After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial ModernismUniversity of Chicago Press. 2013.Philosophy and painting: Hegel and Manet -- Politics and ontology: Clark and Fried -- Art and truth: Heidegger and Hegel.
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