Robert Pippin - Radical Finitude in the Anti-Idealist Modern European Philosophical Tradition”

Robert Pippin is Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Kant’s Theory of Form; Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; Modernism as a Philosophical Problem; Hegel’s Practical Philosophy; After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism; Interanimations: Receiving Modern German Philosophy, as well as a book on philosophy and literature, Henry James and Modern Moral Life, and three books on film. Hegel’s Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in The Science of Logic is forthcoming. Pippin is a past winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was recently elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina.