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.
Table of Contents:
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.
About the Author :
Robert B. Pippin is the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on the modern philosophical tradition and one on literature, Henry James and Modern Moral Life (1999), as well as numerous articles on similar topics.
