Culmination - Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor 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 many books on philosophy, literature, art, and film. Klappentext "Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended, failed even, in the German Idealist tradition. In The Culmination, Robert B. Pippin explores the ramifications of this charge through a masterful survey of Western philosophy, especially Heidegger's critiques of Hegel and Kant. Pippin argues that Heidegger's basic concern was to determine sources of meaning for human life, particularly those that had been obscured by Western philosophy's attention to reason. The Culmination offers a new interpretation of Heidegger, German Idealism, and the fate of Western rationalism"--

Product details

• Authors: Robert B Pippin, Robert B. Pippin
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9780226830001
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83000-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, HISTORY / Historiography, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Idealism, Idealism, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900