The Persistence of Subjectivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Persistence of Subjectivity write by Robert B. Pippin. This book was released on 2005-05-02. The Persistence of Subjectivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to, and critiques of, the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the modern, 'bourgeois' form of life: the free, reflective, self-determining subject. Since it is a relatively recent historical development that human beings think of themselves as individual centers of agency, and that one's entitlement to such a self-determining life is absolutely valuable, the issue at stake also involves the question of the historical location of philosophy. What might it mean to take seriously Hegel's claim that philosophical reflection is always reflection on the historical 'actuality' of its own age? Discussing Heidegger, Gadamer, Adorno, Leo Strauss, Manfred Frank, and John McDowell, Robert Pippin attempts to understand how subjectivity arises in contemporary institutional practices such as medicine, as well as in other contexts such as modernism in the visual arts and in the novels of Marcel Proust.
Idealism as Modernism
Idealism as Modernism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Idealism as Modernism write by Robert B. Pippin. This book was released on 1997-01-28. Idealism as Modernism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume Robert Pippin disputes many traditional characterisations of the distinctiveness of modern philosophy.
Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity
Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity write by Frederick Neuhouser. This book was released on 1990-10-26. Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book in English to elucidate the central issues in Fichte's work.
Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity
Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity write by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa’s subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author’s sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes cognitive justice and new humanism.
After the Beautiful
After the Beautiful - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the Beautiful write by Robert B. Pippin. This book was released on 2013-12-23. After the Beautiful available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility—the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel’s approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in history: modernism. In After the Beautiful, Robert B. Pippin, looking at modernist paintings by artists such as Édouard Manet and Paul Cézanne through Hegel’s lens, does what Hegel never had the chance to do. While Hegel could never engage modernist painting, he did have an understanding of modernity, and in it, art—he famously asserted—was “a thing of the past,” no longer an important vehicle of self-understanding and no longer an indispensable expression of human meaning. Pippin offers a sophisticated exploration of Hegel’s position and its implications. He also shows that had Hegel known how the social institutions of his day would ultimately fail to achieve his own version of genuine equality, a mutuality of recognition, he would have had to explore a different, new role for art in modernity. After laying this groundwork, Pippin goes on to illuminate the dimensions of Hegel’s aesthetic approach in the path-breaking works of Manet, the “grandfather of modernism,” drawing on art historians T. J. Clark and Michael Fried to do so. He concludes with a look at Cézanne, the “father of modernism,” this time as his works illuminate the relationship between Hegel and the philosopher who would challenge Hegel’s account of both modernity and art—Martin Heidegger. Elegantly inter-weaving philosophy and art history, After the Beautiful is a stunning reassessment of the modernist project. It gets at the core of the significance of modernism itself and what it means in general for art to have a history. Ultimately, it is a testament, via Hegel, to the distinctive philosophical achievements of modernist art in the unsettled, tumultuous era we have inherited.
