Robert B. Pippin

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Robert B. Pippin (born September 14, 1948 in Portsmouth (Virginia) ) is an American philosopher . He teaches at the University of Chicago and is best known for his work on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . He has also researched Immanuel Kant , Friedrich Nietzsche , Marcel Proust , Hannah Arendt , Leo Strauss , Henry James and the philosophy of film.

Career

Between 1975 and 1992 Pippin taught at the University of California, San Diego , and then followed a call to Chicago. In 2007 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . On November 26, 2016, Robert Pippin was elected a member ( matriculation number 7718 ) of the Leopoldina . He has been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 2009 .

For 2011 he held the Schiller Professorship at the University of Jena .

Works (selection)

  • 1982 Kant's Theory of Form. An Essay on the Critique of Pure Reason
  • 1989 Hegel's Idealism. The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness
  • 1997 Idealism as Modernism. Hegelian Variations
  • 1999 Henry James and Modern Moral Life
    • Morality and Modernity. The world of Henry James, German by Wiebke Meier; Fink: Paderborn 2004. ISBN 3-7705-3786-6
  • 2004 (as editor, together with Otfried Höffe :) Hegel on Ethics and Politics
  • 2005 The realization of freedom. Idealism as a discourse of modernity (collection of articles), Campus: Frankfurt am Main / New York. ISBN 3-593-37152-9
  • 2008 Hegel's Practical Philosophy. Rational Agency as Ethical Life
  • 2010 Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy
  • 2010 Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy
  • 2011 Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit . Princeton University Press, Princeton. New Jersey, USA, ISBN 978-0-691-14851-9 . Also as an e-book.
  • 2012 art as philosophy. Hegel and modern visual art , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin.
  • 2012 Fatalism in American Film Noir. Some Cinematic Philosophy , University of Virginia Press: Charlottesville and London.
  • 2016 A film philosophy symposium with Robert B. Pippin. Western, Film Noir and the Dardenne Brothers' Cinema (edited by Ludwig Nagl and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz), Berlin: De Gruyter, ISBN 9783110437850 . Also as an e-book.

literature

  • Leopoldina Newly Elected Members 2016, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2017, p. 39 ( PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Robert B. Pippin. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 24, 2019 (annotated).
  2. ↑ See the corresponding announcement .
personal data
SURNAME Pippin, Robert B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pippin, Robert Buford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Portsmouth, Virginia