'Modernism as a Philosophical Problem 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.
Pippin defends an original re-narration of the development of modern philosophy, substantially different from that common in orthodox, postmodernist, and critical theory discussions, and one much more sensitive to the radicality of the most complete expression and defense of a modernist self-understanding - the classical German Idealist tradition, especially the position defended by Hegel. This interpretation is the basis for the claim that no paradigm shift, ideology critique, or new way of thinking can dispense with or overcome such modernist aspirations.' - from back cover. 

Includes a bibliography and an index.
Access level

Onsite

Location code
REF.PIR3
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

1999

Edition

Second Edition

No of pages

256

ISBN / ISSN

9780631214144

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Introduction to the Second Edition

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

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