Robert B. Pippin
Chair
Department of Philosophy
The University of Chicago
United States of America
Biography
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College Robert Pippin works primarily on the modern German philosophical tradition, with a concentration on Kant and Hegel. In addition he has published on issues in theories of modernity, political philosophy, theories of self-consciousness, the nature of conceptual change, and the problem of freedom. He has a number of interdisciplinary interests, especially those that involve the relation between philosophy and literature and has published a book on Henry James and articles on Proust, modern art, and contemporary film. He is currently finishing a book on Hegel’s practical philosophy, and is at work on a book about political psychology in American film.
Research Interest
The relation between philosophy and literature,modern art, contemporary film.
Publications
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Nietzsche, Psychology, First Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010)
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Hegel on Self-Consciousness. Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011)
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Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012)
