Modernism As a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture - Couverture souple

Pippin, Robert B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0631176578 ISBN 13 : 9780631176572

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1991

Synopsis

Since the 19th century European culture has been lagely concerned with the idea of modernity. This book attempts centres on the philosophical contribution to this aspect of culture. It covers the dissatisfactions voiced in the work of Nietzsche, Hegel and Heidegger, as well as the more recent arguments of Adorno, Habermas and Rorty. The author argues against the Nietzschean and Heideggerean claims about a nihilistic end to the modern tradition, and defends Hegel's idea about the nature and potential completion of modernity.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem,Second Edition presents an interpretation of the negative and critical self–understanding characteristic of culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.

Pippin defends an original re–narration of the development of modern philosophy, substantially different from that common in orthodox, postmodernist and critical theory discussions, and one much more sensitive to the radicality of the most complete expression and defense of a modernist self–understanding – the classical German Idealist tradition, especially the position defended by Hegel. This interpretation is the basis for the claim that no paradigm shift, ideology critique, or new way of thinking can dispense with or overcome such modernist aspirations. In fact, the author argues, one can still detect the persistence of such aspirations and commitments in some of the harshest modernity critics, in Nietzsche and in Heidegger especially.

This unique and engaging view of modernity is an essential read for students, academics, and researchers studying Modernism, 20th Century Philosophy, Social Theory, and Hegel and German Idealism.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0631176578
• ISBN 13: 9780631176572
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible