Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations (Modern European Philosophy)
Cambridge University Press, 4/17/1997
EAN 9780521560252, ISBN10: 052156025X
Hardcover, 484 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
Language: English
'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.
1. Introduction
Hegelianism?
Part 1. The Original Options
Kant Versus Hegel
2. Kant on the spontaneity of mind
3. On the moral foundations of Kant's Rechtslehre
4. Hegel, ethical reasons, Kantian rejoinders
5. Avoiding German idealism
Kant, Hegel, and the reflective judgment problem
Part II. Critical Modernism
6. Hegel, modernity, and Habermas
7. Technology as ideology
prospects
Part III. Greeks, Germans and Moderns
8. The modern world of Leo Strauss
9. Being, time, and politics
the Strauss-Kojève debate
Part IV. Narrating Modernity
10. Blumenberg and the modernity problem
11. Modern mythic meaning
Blumenberg contra Nietzsche
Part V. Modernism and Nihilism
12. Truth and lies in early Nietzsche
13. Nietzsche's alleged farewell
the Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Nietzsche
14. Morality as psychology
psychology as morality
Nietzsche, Eros, and clumsy lovers
Part VI. Heidegger's 'Culmination'
15. On being anti-Cartesian
Hegel, Heidegger, subjectivity and sociality
16. Heideggerian postmodernism and political metaphysics
Part VII. Hegelianism
17. Hegel's ethical rationalism.