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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]
