Hegel's Idealism by Robert B Pippin

Hegel's Idealism by Robert B Pippin

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Hegel's Idealism by Robert B Pippin

This is the most important book on Hegel to have appeared in the past ten years. Robert Pippin offers a completely new interpretation of Hegel's idealism, which focuses on Hegel's appropriation and development of kant's theoretical project. Hegel is presented neither as a precritical metaphysician nor as a social theorist, but as a critical philosopher whose disagreements with Kant, especially on the issue of intuitions, enrich the idealist arguments against empiricism, realism and naturalism. In the face of the dismissal of absolute idealism as either unintelligible or implausible, Pippin explains and defends an original account of the philosophical basis for Hegel's claims about the historical and social nature of selfconsciousness, and so of knowledge itself.
' … the scholarship on which the book is based is first-rate and the presentation is genuinely philosophical … the book is an important one, and one any serious advanced student of German Idealism will have to read' Raymond Geuss, Columbia University
'In the history of Hegel interpretation this will (I hope) prove to be a very influential book. it should forever put paid to the myth of Hegel's speculative philosophy as a direct return to the high rationalist tradition which Kant condemned as 'dogmatic' … This achievement makes Pippin's book a major event in the story of our effort to understand Hegel.' H. S. Harris, York University, Toronto

Robert B. Pippin is the Chair of the John U. Philosophy Department and the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy. The University of Chicago's National Committee on Social Thought Hegel's Practical Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (2010), Hollywood Westerns and American Myth (2010), and Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (2010) are among his works.

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ISBN 13 9780521379236
ISBN 10 0521379237
Title Hegel's Idealism
Author Robert B Pippin
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1989-02-24
Number of pages 340
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.