Robert B. Pippin

Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago, and has been the Chair of the Committee on Social Thought for the past twenty-two years. His books include Kant’s Theory of Form (Yale, 1982), Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness (Cambridge, 1989); Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture (Blackwell, 1991; 2^nd ed. 1999); Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations (Cambridge, 1997); Henry James and Modern Moral Life (Cambridge, 2000); The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath (Cambridge, 2005); Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life (Cambridge, 2008); Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy (Yale, 2010); Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (Chicago, 2010); Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in The Phenomenology of Spirit (Princeton, 2011); Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy (Virginia,  2012); After the Beautiful. Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism (Chicago, 2013) and Interanimations: Receiving Modern German Philosophy (Chicago, 2015). His most recent book, The Philosophical Hitchcock. Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unkowingness, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in October. He is a former fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, lecturer at the Collège de France, winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, and is a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society.