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    Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form
    University 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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    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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    Theory’s Empire: Reflections on a Vocation for Critical Inquiry
    with Stanley Fish, Peter Galison, Sander L. Gilman, Miriam Hansen, Harry Harootunian, Fredric Jameson, Jerome McGann, J. Hillis Miller, and Robert Morgan
    Critical Inquiry 30 (2): 396. 2004.
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    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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    A Response to Charles Altieri
    Philosophy 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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    Kant
    In 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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    Agent and Deed in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
    In Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.), A Companion to Nietzsche, Blackwell. 2006.
    This chapter contains sections titled: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.
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    The Metaphysical Nietzsche?
    Filozofia 78 (5): 321-337. 2023.
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    Gay Science and Corporeal Knowledge
    In Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 2000, De Gruyter. pp. 136-152. 2000.
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    Chapter 13. The Curious Fate of the Idea of Progress
    In 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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    4. 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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    Philosophie mit anderen Mitteln
    Deutsche 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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    Verdades e mentiras na obra inicial de Nietzsche
    Revista 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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  • Hegel's social theory of agency : the 'inner-outer' problem
    In Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Hegel on action, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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    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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    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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    11. The Idealism in German Idealism
    In 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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    Der Schatten der Liebe: Die Rolle der Eifersucht in Prousts À la recherche du temps perdu
    Deutsche 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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    Confounding Morality in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt
    Philosophy of Education 74 26-56. 2018.
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    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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    All for one and one for all
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 103 (3): 728-733. 2021.
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 103, Issue 3, Page 728-733, November 2021.