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Philosophy by Other Means The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226770802, ISBN: HB: 9780226770772, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Throughout his career, Robert B. Pippin has examined the relationship between philosophy and the arts. With his writings on film, literature, and visual modernism, he has shown that there are aesthetic objects that cannot be properly understood unles...

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Philosophy

Hegel's Realm of Shadows Logic as Metaphysics in "The Science of Logic"

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226703411, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, "The Science of Logic". This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists ca...

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Film Studies

Filmed Thought Cinema as Reflective Form

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226672007, ISBN: HB: 9780226671956, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 colour plates, 30 halftones

With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin,...

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Philosophy

Philosophical Hitchcock "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226668246, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 36 halftones

On the surface, "The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness", is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo". This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative phi...

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History of Art

After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325583, ISBN: HB: 9780226079493, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 36 halftones

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility – the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influen...

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Interanimations Receiving Modern German Philosophy

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226259659, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philoso...

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Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226669762, ISBN: HB: 9780226669755, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
152 pp., 23x15 cm

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. His highly unusual style and insistence on what remains hidden or unsaid in his writing make pinning him to a particular position tricky. Nonetheless, certain rea...

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Hollywood Westerns and American Myth The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300172065, Yale University Press, September 2011
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 colour images, 52 black&white illus.

In this pathbreaking book one of America's most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks' "Red Rive...

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