Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations

by Robert B. Pippin

Book Overview

'Modernity' has come to refer both to a contested historical category and to an even more contested philosophical and civilisational ideal. In this important collection of essays Robert Pippin takes issue with some prominent assessments of what is or is not philosophically at stake in the idea of a modern revolution in Western civilisation, and presents an alternative view. Professor Pippin disputes many traditional characterisations of the distinctiveness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521568730
• ISBN13: 9780521568739
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"