The Significance of Self-Consciousness in Idealist Theories of Logic by Robert B. Pippin

source: Philosophical Overdose     2016年8月12日
In this talk, Robert B. Pippin discusses the thought of German Idealists like Kant and Hegel in connection with their theories of logic or judgment/thought. Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on German idealism, including Kant’s Theory of Form (1982), Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness (1989), Modernism as a Philosophical Problem (1991), and Hegel’s Practical Philosophy (2008). He has also written on literature (Henry James and Modern Moral Life (2000)) and film (Hollywood Westerns and American Myth (2010). His most recent books are Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (2010), Hegel on Self-Consciousness (2011), and Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy (2012), and Kunst als Philosophie: Hegel und die Philosophie der bildlichen Moderne (2012). He has been visiting professor at universities in Amsterdam, Jena, Frankfurt, and at the Collège de France. He is a past winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of The American Philosophical Society.
This lecture is part of the Aristotelian Society given at the University of London in 2014.