Robert B. Pippin
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College
Robert Pippin works primarily on the modern German philosophical tradition, with a concentration on Kant and Hegel. In addition he has published on issues in theories of modernity, political philosophy, theories of self-consciousness, the nature of conceptual change, and the problem of freedom. He has a number of interdisciplinary interests, especially those that involve the relation between philosophy and literature and has published a book on Henry James and articles on Proust, modern art, and contemporary film. He is currently finishing a book on Hegel’s practical philosophy, and is at work on a book about political psychology in American film.
Selected Publications
- Kant's Theory of Form: An Essay on the `Critique of Pure Reason' (1982);
- Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness (1989);
- Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture (1991);
- Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations (1997);
- Henry James and Modern Moral Life (2000);
- The Persistance of Subjectivity (2005);
- Die Verwirklichung der Freiheit (2005);
- Nietzsche, moraliste français: La conception Nietzscheenne d'une philosophie psychologique (2006);
- "What Is the Question For Which Hegel's 'Theory of Recognition' is the Answer?" European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 8 no. 2 (2000);
- "What Was Abstract Art? (From the Point of View of Hegel)," Critical Inquiry vol. 29, No.1 (2002);
- "Authenticity in Painting: On Michael Fried's Art History," Critical Inquiry, vol. 31, no. 3 (2005);
- "Brandom's Hegel," European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 13, no. 3 (2006).
Courses Taught
- Heidegger: Being and Time
- Hegel: Philosophy of Right
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
- Henry James
- Nietzsche: Modernity and Melancholia
- The Philosophy of Visual Modernism
