Abstract

Pippin has assembled a number of independent pieces into a volume to complement his Modernism as a Philosophical Problem. His primary thesis is that Hegel and German Idealism generally offer an approach to modernism which both avoids the subjectivism and mentalism of Descartes and is strong enough to resist the attacks of Habermas, Strauss, Blumenberg, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.