Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations

by Robert B. Pippin

• ISBN13: 9780521560252
• ISBN10: 052156025X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

'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 defends claims about agency, freedom, ethical life and modernity itself, all of which are central to the German idealist philosophical tradition, and in particular, to the writings of Hegel. Having considered the Hegelian version of these issues the author explores other accounts as found in Habermas, Strauss, Blumenberg, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

Author Biography

Rorert S. Pippin is Professor of Social Thought and Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Abbreviations	ix
1 Introduction: Hegelianism?	1	(28)
Part One The Original Options: Kant Versus Hegel	29	(128)
2 Kant on the Spontaneity of Mind	29	(27)
3 On the Moral Foundations of Kant's Rechtslehre	56	(36)
4 Hegel, Ethical Reasons, Kantian Rejoinders	92	(37)
5 Avoiding German Idealism: Kant, Hegel, and the Reflective Judgement Problem	129	(28)
Part Two Critical Modernism	157	(52)
6 Hegel, Modernity, and Habermas	157	(28)
7 Technology as Ideology: Prospects	185	(24)
Part Three Greeks, Germans, and Moderns	209	(56)
8 The Modern World of Leo Strauss	209	(24)
9 Being, Time, and Politics: The Strauss-Kojeve Debate	233	(32)
Part Four Narrating Modernity	265	(46)
10 Blumenberg and the Modernity Problem	265	(21)
11 Modern Mythic Meaning: Blumenberg Contra Nietzsche	286	(25)
Part Five Modernism and Nihilism	311	(40)
12 Truth and Lies in the Early Nietzsche	311	(19)
13 Nietzsche's Alleged Farewell: The PreModern, Modern, and Postmodern Nietzsche	330	(21)
14 Morality as Psychology, Psychology as Morality: Nietzsche, Eros and Clumsy Lovers	351	(24)
Part Six Hediegger's "Culmination"	375	(42)
15 On Being Anti-Cartesian: Hegel, Heidegger, Subjectivity, and Sociality	375	(20)
16 Heideggerean Historicity and Metaphysical Politics	395	(22)
Part Seven Hegelianism	417	(34)
17 Hegel's Ethical Rationalism	417	(34)
Name Index	451	(5)
Subject Index	456