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Modernism as a Philosophical Problem
On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture

Robert B. Pippin (Author)

9780631214144, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 23 August 1999

256 pages
22.8 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm, 0.397 kg

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.

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.

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]

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