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51The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian AftermathCambridge University Press. 2005.The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to, and critiques of, the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the modern, 'bourgeois' form of life: the free, reflective, self-determining subject. Since it is a relatively recent historical development that human beings think of themselves as individual centers of agency, and that one's entitlement to such a self-determining life is absolutely valuable, the issue at stake also involves the question of the historic…Read more
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51In 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
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50Fatalism in American film noir: some cinematic philosophyUniversity 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.
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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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47Deceit, Desire, and Democracy: Nietzsche on Modern ErosInternational Studies in Philosophy 32 (3): 61-70. 2000.
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46Doer and Deed: Responses to Acampora and AndersonJournal 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
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46Introductions 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
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45Gerold Prauss, "Kant und das Problem der Dinge an sich" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 14 (3): 374. 1976.
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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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44Response to CriticsInquiry: 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
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43Apperception and Difference Between Kantian and Hegelian IdealismProceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress 2 (2): 535-550. 1989.
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43Hegel's Practical Philosophy: The Realization of Freedom'In Karl Ameriks (ed.), The Cambridge companion to German idealism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 180--199. 2000.
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41The culmination: Heidegger, German idealism, and the fate of philosophyUniversity of Chicago Press. 2024.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
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41Nietzche and the Melancholy of ModernitySocial Research: An International Quarterly 66 (2). 1999.
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39Heideggerean Postmodernism and Metaphysical PoliticsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 4 (1): 17-37. 1996.
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36G. W. F. Hegel, "Lectures on the Philosophy of World History. Introduction: Reason in History", trans. H. B. Nisbet (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 16 (1): 122. 1978.
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36Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red LineCritical Inquiry 39 (2): 247-275. 2013.
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36Le Grand Imagier of George Wilson Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies, by George M. Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 240 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐959489‐4 hb £30.00 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 21 (2): 334-341. 2013.
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34Horstmann, Siep, and German IdealismEuropean 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
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32Psychology Degree Zero? The Representation of Action in the Films of the Dardenne BrothersCritical Inquiry 41 (4): 757-785. 2015.
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