Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books and articles on German idealism and later German philosophy, including Kant's Theory of Form; Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; Modernism as a Philosophical Problem; and Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations. In addition he has published on issues in political philosophy, theories of self-consciousness, the nature of conceptual change, and the problem of freedom. He also wrote a book about literature and philosophy: Henry James and Modern Moral Life. A collection of his essays in German, Die Verwirklichung der Freiheit, appeared in 2005, as did The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath, and his book on Nietzsche, Nietzsche, moraliste français: La conception nietzschéenne d'une psychologie philosophique, appeared in 2006. Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy appeared in 2012. He was twice an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, is a winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, and was recently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the American Philosophical Society. He is also a member of the German National Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Selected Publications
The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017)
Die Aktualität des Deutschen Idealismus (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2017)
Interanimations: Receiving Modern German Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015)
After the Beautiful. Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Kunst als Philosophie. Hegel und die Philosophie der modernen Bildkunst (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2012)
Introductions to Nietzsche, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012)
Hegel on Self-Consciousness. Desire and Death in the 'Phenomenology of Spirit' (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011); Italian Translation, 2015
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010) - Link
Hegel's Concept of Self-Consciousness, 2009 Spinoza Lectures (Amsterdam: van Gorcum, 2010) - Link
Nietzsche, Psychology, First Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010) - Link; Spanish Translation, 2015
Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life (Cambridge University Press, 2008) - Link
Media
Robert Pippin's recorded lectures & interviews
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