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188The significance of taste: Kant, aesthetic and reflective judgmentJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (4): 549-569. 1996.The Significance of Taste: Kant, Aesthetic and Reflective Judgment ROBERT B. PIPPIN 1? THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION of the "Analytic of the Beautiful" in the "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment" is easy enough to identify. On what basis, if any, could one claim some sort of universal a priori validity for judgments of the form, "This is beautiful"? In Kant's well-known analysis of this question, the issue is reformulated as: By what right could one claim that another person ought to feel pleasure in the…Read more
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174Hegel’s Practical Philosophy – Rational Agency as Ethical LifeCambridge University Press. 2008.This fresh and original book argues that the central questions in Hegel's practical philosophy are the central questions in modern accounts of freedom: What is freedom, or what would it be to act freely? Is it possible so to act? And how important is leading a free life? Robert Pippin argues that the core of Hegel's answers is a social theory of agency, the view that agency is not exclusively a matter of the self-relation and self-determination of an individual but requires the right sort of eng…Read more
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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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61Naturalness and mindedness: Hegel' compatibilismEuropean Journal of Philosophy 7 (2). 1999.The problem of freedom in modern philosophy has three basic components: (i) what is freedom, or what would it be to act freely? (ii) Is it possible so to act? (iii) And how important is leading a free life?1 Hegel proposed unprecedented and highly controversial answers to these questions.
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7After 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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1Kant’s Theory of Form: An Essay on the Critique of Pure ReasonTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 47 (3): 515-516. 1982.
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151What is the question for which Hegel's theory of recognition is the answer?European Journal of Philosophy 8 (2). 2000.
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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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41Hegel 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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118The 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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47Fatalism 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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3In my ‘Reponses’ to critics (McDowell 2002), I devoted three pages to Pippin’s ‘Leaving Nature Behind, or Two Cheers for ‘‘Subjectivism’’ ’ (Pippin 2002). Pippin reprinted that paper in his The Persistence of Subjectivity (Pippin 2005),1 with a fifteen-page postscript, in which he connects a response to my response with some of the broader themes of the book. This is a response to Pippin’s response to my response, and I suppose I should worry about diminishing returns. But there is room for clar…Read more
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158Bernard Williams: In the beginning was the deed: Realism and moralism in political argumentJournal of Philosophy 104 (10): 533-539. 2007.
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Mine and thine? The Kantian stateIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 416--446. 2006.
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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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108Kant on empirical conceptsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 10 (1): 1-19. 1979.
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138The Status of Literature in Hegel's Phenomenology of SpiritIn Richard T. Gray, Nicholas Halmi, Gary Handwerk, Michael A. Rosenthal & Klaus Vieweg (eds.), Inventions of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Imaginary since Romanticism, University of Washington Press. 2011.Hegel, in a chapter called “Absolute Knowing,” end his most exciting and original work, the Jena Phenomenology of Spirit, with a quotation, or rather a significant misquotation, of a poet? The poet is Schiller and the poem is his 1782 “Freundschaft” (Friendship). This immediately turns into two questions: Why are the last words not Hegel’s own, and why are they rather a poet’s? I will turn to the details in a moment but, as noted, such an inquiry may not be worth the trouble. Authors, even philo…Read more
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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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5Henry 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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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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75Nietzsche and the origin of the idea of modernismInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 26 (2). 1983.The notion of modernism, originally a classificatory term in art and literary criticism, now a common term of art in many philosophic (and anti?philosophic) programs, has remained an elusive, often vague point of view. For a discussion of the notion's historical accuracy and philosophic legitimacy this article selects an author greatly responsible for setting out the problem (called by him ?nihilism') and philosophically sensitive to the issues involved in claiming that something essential to a …Read more
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5¿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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48In 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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8Introductory RemarksIn Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-5. 2010.
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The "logic of experience" as "absolute knowledge: in Hegel's Phenomenology of spiritIn Dean Moyar & Michael Quante (eds.), Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2008.