Modernism as a Philosophical Problem On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture

by Pippin, Robert B.

• ISBN13: 9780631214144
• ISBN10: 0631214143
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-25
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.

Author Biography

Robert B. Pippin is the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on the modern philosophical tradition and one on literature, Henry James and Modern Moral Life (1999), as well as numerous articles on similar topics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments to the Second Edition	vii
Acknowledgments to the First Edition	viii
Introduction to the Second Edition	xi
Introduction: The Modernity Problem	1	(15)
Sensing the End	1	(7)
German Homesickness	8	(8)
Modernity and Modernism	16	(29)
Modernity as a Historical Category	16	(6)
The Legitimacy Problem	22	(7)
The ``Culture of Rupture''	29	(9)
Paradoxes and Problems	38	(7)
Idealism and Modernity	45	(33)
The Kantian Enlightenment	45	(5)
The Limits of Transcendental Idealism	50	(10)
Hegel's Experiment	60	(13)
Hegelian Teleology	73	(5)
``Nihilism stands at the door'': Nietzsche	78	(36)
Nietzsche's Complaint	78	(7)
Modernity as ``Twilight'' Zone	85	(6)
Origins and Perspectives	91	(1)
The``Pathos of Distance''	91	(23)
``The Age of Consummate Meaninglessness'': Heidegger	114	(30)
Failed Autonomy	114	(4)
Modernity as a ``Metaphysical'' Problem	118	(9)
The ``Vollendung'' of Metaphysics	127	(7)
The Turn, Turning Away, and Overturning	134	(10)
The Death of God and Modern Melancholy	144	(16)
Nietzsche's ``Insane'' Prophet	144	(5)
Mourning or Melancholy?	149	(2)
Nietzschean Health	151	(3)
Nietzschean Therapy	154	(6)
Unending Modernity	160	(20)
Modern Options	160	(3)
The Dialectic of Modernity	163	(5)
Postmodernity?	168	(8)
Modernity as Dialectic	176	(4)
Notes	180	(38)
Bibliography	218	(12)
Index	230