Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee's "Jesus" fictions constitute a trilogy of novels that have appeared over the last decade. They stand out from his earlier work in their difficulty, and in the central role they accord philosophy--in part through their interest in specific themes in which philosophy is interested, in part through their critical engagement with philosophy as a mode of intellectual activity, with a very particular role to play in the broader cultural concerns of mode...

On comprendra bien mieux Nietzsche si, cessant de voir en lui un métaphysicien allemand ou le défenseur d’une doctrine naturaliste des instincts, on le considère comme un des grands moralistes français. Comme eux, il est d’une totale lucidité sur la fragilité et les défauts humains, mais sans le désespoir de Pascal et sans le mépris glacial de La Rochefoucauld pour « l’humain, trop humain ». À l’instar de Montaigne, il a voulu devenir un esprit sensé, férocement honnête et joyeux, quelqu’u...

Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thinker about – and critic of – film who has written books and numerous articles on canonical subjects such as the Western, Film Noir, and Hitchcock's Vertigo.In Robert Pippin and Film, Dominic Lash demonstrates the ways that film has been crucial to Pippin's thought on important philosophic...

This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship what is arguably Friedrich Nietzsche's most rewarding but most challenging text. Including essays that were commissioned specifically for the volume as well as essays revised and edite...

A philosophical engagement with Bresson's many films, attentive to more than their religiosity.Over a forty-year career, Robert Bresson developed one of the most distinctive cinematic styles in the history of filmmaking. Criticizing conventional movies as "filmed theater," Bresson proposed instead a way of writing with images, which he called "cinematographs." Robert B. Pippin argues here for a way of understanding how these stylistic innovations express a range of...

It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk's films are rich with irony, insight and depth. Indeed Sirk's films, often celebrated as classics of the genre, are attempts to subvert rather than conform to rules of conventional melodrama.The visual style, story and characters of films li...

On assimile souvent les westerns hollywoodiens à de simples divertissements commerciaux véhiculant les clichés les plus éculés de la modernité américaine. N’est-ce pas réducteur ? Certains westerns ne sont-ils pas d’authentiques « formes de pensée » portant un regard distancié, démystificateur et ironique sur la fondation épique du « Nouveau Monde » ? Dans ce livre captivant, Robert Pippin s’interroge sur l’apport des grands westerns à la philosophie politique. Ceux-ci mettent en scène le ...

Robert B. Pippin intenta explicar por qué Nietzsche considera la psicología como la madre de las ciencias, incluso pasando por encima de la metafísica. Se propone que la psicología es prioritaria, debido a que trabaja con los problemas fundamentales de la vida humana, en sus múltiples contextos y especificidades. Pippin se da a la tarea de estudiar en qué medida Nietzsche intenta hacer la sustitución de la filosofía por lo que denominará "psicología filosófica", instaurando así un modelo d...

Robert B. Pippin, einer der weltweit renommiertesten Forscher auf dem Gebiet des Deutschen Idealismus, unternimmt in seinem Buch eine Zeitreise mit einem Philosophen, der auf den ersten Blick dafür denkbar ungeeignet erscheint: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Ausgangspunkt der Reise sind Hegels 1820 in Berlin gehaltene »Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik«, in denen er bekanntlich der Kunst ihren Platz in seinem philosophischen System zuweist: als das unmittelbare sinnliche Wissen des absoluten G...

The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales. In this book Robert Pippin argues that many of these films also raise distinctly philosophical questions. Where most Hollywood films of that era featured reflective individuals living with purpose, taking action and effecting desired consequences, the typical noir protagonist deliberates and plans, only to be confr...

Die in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze verbinden zwei Behauptungen. Die erste ist, dass die begrifflichen Neuerungen, die die großen Figuren der deutschen philosophischen Tradition, allen voran Kant und Hegel, entwickelt haben – Begriffe wie Selbstbewusstsein, Freiheit, Subjektivität, Logik, Geist und philosophische Methode –, nach wie vor von herausragendem philosophischem Interesse sind, also keineswegs als bloß historische Bestände betrachtet werden dürfen. Die zweite Behauptung laute...

Throughout his career, Robert B. Pippin has examined the relationship between philosophy and the arts. With his writings on film, literature, and visual modernism, he has shown that there are aesthetic objects that cannot be properly understood unless we acknowledge and reflect on the philosophical concerns that are integral to their meaning. His latest book, Philosophy by Other Means, extends this trajectory, offering a collection of essays that present profound considerations of...