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

Presents an interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of Western Enlightenment culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche. The book attempts to answer the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.

List of contents

Introduction to the Second Edition.
Acknowledgements.

Part I: Introduction: The Modernity Problem .

1. Sensing the End.

2. German Homesickness.

Part II: Modernity and Modernism .

3. Modernity as a Historical Category.

4. The Legitimacy Problem.

5. The Culture of Rupture .

6. Paradoxes and Problems.

Part III: Idealism and Modernity .

7. The Kantian Enlightenment.

8. The Limits of Transcendental Idealism.

9. Hegel s Experiment.

10. Hegelian Teleology.

Part IV: "Nihilism Stands at the Door": Nietzsche .

11. Nietzsche s Complaint.

12. Modernity as Twilight Zone.

13. Origins and Perspectives.

14. The Pathos of Distance .

Part V: "The Age of Consummate Meaninglessness": Heidegger .

15. Failed Autonomy.

16. Modernity as a Metaphysical Problem.

17. The Vollendung of Metaphysics.

18. The Turn, Turning Away, and Overturning.

Part VI: The Death of God and Modern Melancholy .

19. Nietzsche s Insane Prophet.

20. Mourning or Melancholy?

21. Nietzichian Health.

22. Nietzichian Therapy.

Part VII: Unending Modernity .

23. Modern Options.

24. The Dialetic of Modernity.

25. Postmodernity?

26. Modernity as Dialectic.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Product details

• Authors: Robert B. Pippin
• Assisted by: Robert B. Pippin (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.1999
• EAN: 9780631214144
• ISBN: 978-0-631-21414-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy