Robert Pippin
Biographic Data
| ID | 277435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Pippin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Pippin |
| SIGNATURE | PIPPIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Responses to Trisokkas, Torsen and McManus
Trisokkas raises two objections to my defence of Heidegger's claim against Hegel. Heidegger's claim is that Hegel had dogmatically assumed the priority of ‘logic’ in any inquiry into the meaning of being, thus inheriting the metaphysical tradition's dual assumptions that what must be said to matter most of all in our attempt understand our place in the world and a possible reconciliation with the world is the knowability of being. Everything else…
Kant and Literary Studies
The Culmination: Reply to my Critics
In Being and Time, Heidegger wanted to convince his readers of two initial claims, along the way to a much longer project that he had planned for the book. One was that entities are available for experience in their significance (Bedeutsamkeit), salient in experience because of the way they matter, given various comportments, practical undertakings in our engagements with beings and with others. In making this claim, he was concerned with the iss…
Hegel on Logic as Metaphysics
Over the past 30 years the question of Hegel’s vision of metaphysics has become widely debated. Especially important is the issue: what does Hegel mean when he says, not that metaphysics requires an unusual, speculative logic for its exposition, but “coincides with logic.” The aim of this chapter is to offer an interpretation of this claim, with special attention to Hegel’s understanding of Kant’s transcendental logic, which Hegel both highly pra…
Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John Mcdowell
Metaphysical Exile: On J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions
This is the first detailed interpretation of J. M. Coetzee’s “Jesus” trilogy as a whole. Robert Pippin treats the three “fictions” as a philosophical fable, in the tradition of Plato’s Republic , More’s Utopia , Rousseau’s Emile , or Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra . Everyone in the mythical land explored by Coetzee is an exile, removed from their homeland and transported to a strange new place, and they have all had most of the memories of th…
Love and Class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows
Peter E. Gordon. Adorno and Existence . Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2016. 272 pp
Psychology Degree Zero? The Representation of Action in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers
Self-Interpreting Selves: Comments on Alexander Nehamas's Nietzsche: Life as Literature
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 understan…
Reconstructivism: On Honneth’s Hegelianism
In this paper I express enthusiastic solidarity with Axel Honneth's inheritance and transformation of several core Hegelian ideas, and express one major disagreement. The disagreement is not so much with anything he says, as it is with what he doesn't say. It concerns his rejection of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, and so his attempt to reconstruct Hegel's practical philosophy without reliance on that theoretical philosophy. This attitude toward…
De volta a Hegel: Sobre Menos que nada, de Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek propõe-se oferecer uma versão renovada da dialética materialista e uma teoria crítica ao capitalismo moderno tardio. No entanto, resta saber se sua versão do idealismo alemão oferece o caminho adequado para essa crítica. Neste artigo procura-se sugerir uma maneira diferente de compreender o problema da "negatividade" nessa tradição e de responder à questão de se há algo na sociedade contemporânea que proporciona alguma base material …
Doer and Deed: Responses to Acampora and Anderson
Under the press of questions and comments by Christa Davis Acampora and R. Lanier Anderson, I attempt here to clarify the understanding of human agency that I attribute to Nietzsche in my book, Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy. A central issue concerns what Nietzsche means in Genealogy I:13, in his famous “lightning-flash” metaphor. I argue that the task posed to us by this passage is to understand it in a way that is consistent with N…
Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick'sThe Thin Red Line
Introductions to Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) 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 po…
Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (TSZ) is often reported to be Friedrich Nietzsche's popular and most read book, but the fact that the book is so unusual and often hermetic has made for wildly different sorts of reception. In traditional philosophical terms, Nietzsche stresses that one can start going wrong when they become captured by the picture of revealing reality, the truth, beneath appearances, in mere opinions. Zarathustra leaves his cave to revisit…
Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
In Hegel's Encyclopedia system, what we would nowadays call his practical philosophy is called the “philosophy of spirit.” By practical philosophy, we usually mean a philosophical account of the possibility of the distinct sorts of events for which we may appropriately demand reasons or justifications from subjects whom we take to be responsible for such events occurring, or we mean an account of actions , and an assessment of what rightly count …
Philosophical Film: Trapped by Oneself in Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past
In many classic film noirs of the 1940s, characters are often depicted acting, but without a clear sense of why they are doing what they are doing or even without a clear sense of exactly what it is that they are doing. Moreover, whatever they end up intending to do is often portrayed as irrelevant. They have no power to direct or control future events and often invoke notions of fatalism and chance that seem out of place in modern contexts. I ar…
How to Overcome Oneself: Nietzsche on Freedom
Although there are several recognizable themes in Nietzsche's discussion of freedom (such as independence from societal pressures and some sort of self-rule or individual sovereignty), at many places he seems especially interested in the issue of 'self-overcoming'. In these passages he considers freedom a kind of perpetual self-overcoming. Freedom is not a metaphysical capacity to have done otherwise, nor the unconstrained expression of one's ide…
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy, philosophy of nature and aesthetics. It includes essays by an internationally recognised team of Hegel scholars. The volume begins with Terry P…
The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche On Overcoming Nihilism
La théorie hégélienne de l'agentivité le problème de l'intérieur et de l'extérieur
Can There Be ‘ Unprincipled Virtue ’? Comments on Nomy Arpaly
In her book, Unprincipled Virtue, Nomy Arpaly is suspicious of reflective endorsement or deliberative rationality views of agency, those which tie the possibility of responsibility and moral blame to the conscious exercise of deliberation and reflection, and which require as a condition of blame- or praise- worthiness an agent's explicit commitment to ethical principles. I am in sympathy with her attack on standard autonomy theories, but argue th…
Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Authenticity in Painting: Remarks on Michael Fried's Art History
Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia
Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
In Hegel's Encyclopedia system, what we would nowadays call his practical philosophy is called the “philosophy of spirit.” By practical philosophy, we usually mean a philosophical account of the possibility of the distinct sorts of events for which we may appropriately demand reasons or justifications from subjects whom we take to be responsible for such events occurring, or we mean an account of actions , and an assessment of what rightly count …
The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche On Overcoming Nihilism
Authenticity in Painting: Remarks on Michael Fried's Art History
The Unavailability of the Ordinary: Strauss on the Philosophical Fate of Modernity
In Natural Right and History Leo Strauss argues for the continuing “relevance” of the classical understanding of natural right. Since this relevance is not a matter of a direct return, or a renewed appreciation that a neglected doctrine is simply true, the meaning of this claim is somewhat elusive. But it is clear enough that the core of Strauss's argument for that relevance is a claim about the relation between human experience and philosophy. S…
Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick'sThe Thin Red Line
Reconstructivism: On Honneth’s Hegelianism
In this paper I express enthusiastic solidarity with Axel Honneth's inheritance and transformation of several core Hegelian ideas, and express one major disagreement. The disagreement is not so much with anything he says, as it is with what he doesn't say. It concerns his rejection of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, and so his attempt to reconstruct Hegel's practical philosophy without reliance on that theoretical philosophy. This attitude toward…
Love and Class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows
Psychology Degree Zero? The Representation of Action in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers
Self-Interpreting Selves: Comments on Alexander Nehamas's Nietzsche: Life as Literature
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 understan…
La théorie hégélienne de l'agentivité le problème de l'intérieur et de l'extérieur
Marcuse
Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia
Introduction Negation and Affirmation Philosophical Origins The Aesthetic Dimension The Psychological Dimension The Political Dimension The Technological Dimension Bibliography Index
Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia
Fichte's Alleged Subjective, Psychological, One-Sided Idealism
Nach den mündlichen Äusserungen Fichtes, denn in seinem Buch war noch nicht davon die Rede, ist das Ich auch durch seine Vorstellungen erschaffend, und all Realität ist nur in dem Ich. Die Welt ist ihm nur ein Ball, den das Ich geworfen hat und den es bei der Reflexion wieder fängt!! Sonach hatte er seine Gottheit wirklich deklariert, wie wir neulich ewarteten.(Schiller to Goethe, 28 October, 1794)
Rationalité et priorité de la vie éthique selon Hegel1
Compte tenu du fait que Hegel défend une forme d’« autodétermination rationnelle » comme modèle d’autonomie, la question se pose de savoir pourquoi il identifie l’exercice de la rationalité pratique à la participation aux institutions de la vie éthique moderne. Sa position fut sujette à controverses parce que sa réponse consiste en partie à dire que ces institutions correspondent aux « déterminations logiques de l’Idée », mais ceci ne constitue q…
The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm
Book Review| April 01 2002 The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm Robert Pippin Robert Pippin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (2): 417. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-2-417 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Pippin; The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm. Common Knowledge 1 April 2002; 8 (2): 417. doi: http…
The Unavailability of the Ordinary: Strauss on the Philosophical Fate of Modernity
In Natural Right and History Leo Strauss argues for the continuing “relevance” of the classical understanding of natural right. Since this relevance is not a matter of a direct return, or a renewed appreciation that a neglected doctrine is simply true, the meaning of this claim is somewhat elusive. But it is clear enough that the core of Strauss's argument for that relevance is a claim about the relation between human experience and philosophy. S…
Critical Inquiry and Critical Theory: A Short History of Nonbeing
Authenticity in Painting: Remarks on Michael Fried's Art History
Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Can There Be ‘ Unprincipled Virtue ’? Comments on Nomy Arpaly
In her book, Unprincipled Virtue, Nomy Arpaly is suspicious of reflective endorsement or deliberative rationality views of agency, those which tie the possibility of responsibility and moral blame to the conscious exercise of deliberation and reflection, and which require as a condition of blame- or praise- worthiness an agent's explicit commitment to ethical principles. I am in sympathy with her attack on standard autonomy theories, but argue th…
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy, philosophy of nature and aesthetics. It includes essays by an internationally recognised team of Hegel scholars. The volume begins with Terry P…
The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche On Overcoming Nihilism
La théorie hégélienne de l'agentivité le problème de l'intérieur et de l'extérieur
How to Overcome Oneself: Nietzsche on Freedom
Although there are several recognizable themes in Nietzsche's discussion of freedom (such as independence from societal pressures and some sort of self-rule or individual sovereignty), at many places he seems especially interested in the issue of 'self-overcoming'. In these passages he considers freedom a kind of perpetual self-overcoming. Freedom is not a metaphysical capacity to have done otherwise, nor the unconstrained expression of one's ide…
Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
In Hegel's Encyclopedia system, what we would nowadays call his practical philosophy is called the “philosophy of spirit.” By practical philosophy, we usually mean a philosophical account of the possibility of the distinct sorts of events for which we may appropriately demand reasons or justifications from subjects whom we take to be responsible for such events occurring, or we mean an account of actions , and an assessment of what rightly count …
Philosophical Film: Trapped by Oneself in Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past
In many classic film noirs of the 1940s, characters are often depicted acting, but without a clear sense of why they are doing what they are doing or even without a clear sense of exactly what it is that they are doing. Moreover, whatever they end up intending to do is often portrayed as irrelevant. They have no power to direct or control future events and often invoke notions of fatalism and chance that seem out of place in modern contexts. I ar…
Introductions to Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) 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 po…
Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (TSZ) is often reported to be Friedrich Nietzsche's popular and most read book, but the fact that the book is so unusual and often hermetic has made for wildly different sorts of reception. In traditional philosophical terms, Nietzsche stresses that one can start going wrong when they become captured by the picture of revealing reality, the truth, beneath appearances, in mere opinions. Zarathustra leaves his cave to revisit…
Doer and Deed: Responses to Acampora and Anderson
Under the press of questions and comments by Christa Davis Acampora and R. Lanier Anderson, I attempt here to clarify the understanding of human agency that I attribute to Nietzsche in my book, Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy. A central issue concerns what Nietzsche means in Genealogy I:13, in his famous “lightning-flash” metaphor. I argue that the task posed to us by this passage is to understand it in a way that is consistent with N…
Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick'sThe Thin Red Line
Self-Interpreting Selves: Comments on Alexander Nehamas's Nietzsche: Life as Literature
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 understan…
Reconstructivism: On Honneth’s Hegelianism
In this paper I express enthusiastic solidarity with Axel Honneth's inheritance and transformation of several core Hegelian ideas, and express one major disagreement. The disagreement is not so much with anything he says, as it is with what he doesn't say. It concerns his rejection of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, and so his attempt to reconstruct Hegel's practical philosophy without reliance on that theoretical philosophy. This attitude toward…
De volta a Hegel: Sobre Menos que nada, de Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek propõe-se oferecer uma versão renovada da dialética materialista e uma teoria crítica ao capitalismo moderno tardio. No entanto, resta saber se sua versão do idealismo alemão oferece o caminho adequado para essa crítica. Neste artigo procura-se sugerir uma maneira diferente de compreender o problema da "negatividade" nessa tradição e de responder à questão de se há algo na sociedade contemporânea que proporciona alguma base material …
Psychology Degree Zero? The Representation of Action in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers
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