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11Leo Strauss’s NietzscheIn Christopher Lynch & Jonathan Marks (eds.), Principle and prudence in Western political thought, State University of New York Press. pp. 357-378. 2016.
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19Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective FormUniversity of Chicago Press. 2019.With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin, however, wants us to consider a more radical proposition: film as thought, as a reflective form. Pippin explores this idea through a series of perceptive analyses of cinematic masterpieces, revealing how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, c…Read more
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3810. Nietzsche Was No Lamarckian Nietzsche Was No Lamarckian (pp. 282-296)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 44 (2): 213. 2013.ABSTRACT Nietzsche's texts invite perplexing questions about the justification and objectivity of his ethical views. According to the interpretation suggested here, Nietzsche does not advance a substantive normative ethics, but proposes, based on his ontological idea of will to power, an instrumentalist theory of value. He is not a realist about value—according to him, nothing is intrinsically valuable. However, things, actions, beliefs, and values can be evaluated with reference to their capaci…Read more
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84 Dividing and Deriving in Kant’s RechtslehreIn Otfried Höffe (ed.), Immanuel Kant: Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre, De Gruyter. pp. 51-68. 2023.
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57Theory’s Empire: Reflections on a Vocation for Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 30 (2): 396. 2004.
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43The 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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2. Hegel, Freedom, The Will. The Philosophy of Right: §§ 1–33In Ludwig Siep (ed.), G. W. F. Hegel: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Akademie Verlag. pp. 31-53. 2005.
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16A Response to Charles AltieriPhilosophy and Literature 47 (1): 249-259. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A Response to Charles AltieriRobert B. PippinIam very grateful to Charles Altieri for his attentive reading of and thoughtful critique of Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts.1 Let me proceed immediately to his main and quite important criticism of the approach defended there. It is this: "My one huge problem with Pippin's perspective is that I cannot accept his insistence that the distinctive …Read more
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5KantIn Simon Critchley & William R. Schroeder (eds.), A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.In the following, I want to suggest two different ways of understanding the relation between Kant's Critique of Judgment and the later German Idealist tradition. Commentators have long noted the point d'appui for any interpretation of this relation: Kant's remarks about an “intuitive intellect” (for him a divine, or creative intellect), and the interpretations of this doctrine offered by schelling (see Article 5) and hegel (Article 6). The first interpretation I want to consider might be called …Read more
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9Agent and Deed in Nietzsche's Genealogy of MoralsIn Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.), A Companion to Nietzsche, Blackwell. 2006-01-01.This chapter contains sections titled: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.
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3Gay Science and Corporeal KnowledgeIn Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 2000, De Gruyter. pp. 136-152. 2000.
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54. Dividing and Deriving in Kant's RechtslehreIn Otfried Höffe (ed.), Immanuel Kant: Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 63-85. 2010.
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3Chapter 13. The Curious Fate of the Idea of ProgressIn Samuel Stoner & Paul Wilford (eds.), Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties, University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 217-232. 2021.
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74. Lightning and Flash, Agent and Deed (I 6–17)In Otfried Höffe (ed.), Friedrich Nietzsche: Genealogie der Moral, Akademie Verlag. pp. 47-63. 2004.
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5Philosophie mit anderen MittelnDeutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte 97 (1): 237-241. 2023.The question is whether literature can be said to have a bearing on philosophical issues, and if so, what a philosophical criticism would entail. The claim is that literature can have such a function by being a form of reflective thought itself and that there can be a form of criticism attentive to such a dimension.
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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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12Verdades e mentiras na obra inicial de NietzscheRevista de Filosofia Aurora 34 (62). 2022.O presente artigo toma como diretriz uma pergunta fundamental: o que significa ver a filosofia do ponto de vista de uma vida afirmável e sustentável? Com base nessa pergunta, examina-se a natureza da alternativa filosófica proposta por Nietzsche ao ascetismo entranhado no âmago da filosofia ocidental, a autoridade com que esta alternativa é enunciada, bem como a relação existente entre a referida alternativa e o ascetismo por ela radicalmente criticado.
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6The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche On Overcoming Nihilism, de Bernard ReginsterRevista de Filosofia Aurora 34 (62). 2022.Não se aplica.
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Hegel's social theory of agency : the 'inner-outer' problemIn Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Hegel on action, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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War, nature, and the absolute. Vernacular metaphysics on Terrence Malick's The thin red lineIn David LaRocca (ed.), The philosophy of war films, University Press of Kentucky. 2014.
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Diskussionsbemerkung. Herta Nagl-Docekal: Film als Tugendlehre? Eine Diskussionsbemerkung zu Robert Pippins Deutung von le Fils. ReplikIn Waldemar Zacharasiewicz & Ludwig Nagl (eds.), Ein Filmphilosophie-Symposium Mit Robert B. Pippin: Western, Film Noir Und Das Kino der Brüder Dardenne, De Gruyter. 2016.
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Hegel on a form of collective irrationalityIn James Gledhill & Sebastian Stein (eds.), Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism, Routledge. 2020.
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16Philosophy by other means: the arts in philosophy and philosophy in the artsUniversity of Chicago Press. 2021.The relationship between philosophy and aesthetic criticism has occupied Robert Pippin throughout his illustrious career. Whether discussing film, literature, or modern and contemporary art, Pippin's claim is that we cannot understand aesthetic objects unless we reckon with the fact that some distinct philosophical issue is integral to their meaning. In his latest offering, Philosophy by Other Means, we are treated to a collection of essays that builds on this larger project, offering profound r…Read more
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65Idealism and the Problem of Finitude: Heidegger and HegelIn Jure Simoniti & Gregor Kroupa (eds.), Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 127-150. 2023.
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9Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee's Jesus FictionsOxford University Press. 2021.Robert Pippin presents here the first detailed interpretation of J.M. Coetzee's "Jesus" trilogy as a whole. Pippin treats the three fictions as a philosophical fable. Everyone in the mythical land explored by Coetzee is an exile, removed from their homeland and transported to a strange new place. While discussing the social and psychological dimensions of the fable, Pippin also treats the literary aspects of the fictions as philosophical explorations of theimplications of a deeper kind of homele…Read more
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1611. The Idealism in German IdealismIn Matthew Boyle & Evgenia Mylonaki (eds.), Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes From John Mcdowell, Harvard University Press. pp. 309-328. 2022.
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11Der Schatten der Liebe: Die Rolle der Eifersucht in Prousts À la recherche du temps perduDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 70 (2): 280-306. 2022.There is an unusual link between the two most prominent themes in Proust’s In Search of Time Past: the psychological dimensions of love and the experience of lived temporality. Each experience is shadowed by, and intensified by, even seems to require, absence. The absence of the beloved is the source of jealousy, and that experience is treated as inseparable, and sometimes as indistinguishable, from love itself. And the absence of reliable access to the past, or the vanishing of the past into a …Read more
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12Confounding Morality in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a DoubtPhilosophy of Education 74 26-56. 2018.
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7Self-Interpreting Selves: Comments on Alexander Nehamas's Nietzsche: Life as LiteratureJournal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (2): 118-133. 2014.ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the legacy of Alexander Nehamas's 1985 book, Nietzsche: Life as Literature. I concentrate on his basic claim that “Nietzsche's model for the world, for objects, and for people turns out to be the literary text and its components; his model for our relation to the world turns out to be interpretation.” The criticisms of this notion that I raise have to do with whether this “model” accounts for the way Nietzsche understands self-knowledge and self-realization. I…Read more
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