Robert B. Pippin

Robert B. Pippin is the 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 several books and articles on German idealism and later German philosophy, including Kant's Theory of Form; Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; Modernism as a Philosophical Problem; and Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations. In addition, he has published on issues in political philosophy, theories of self-consciousness, the nature of conceptual change, and the problem of freedom.

February 2026Critics Page

Art, Memory, and Mattering: On Michael Fried’s Trilogy

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In a three-volume boxed set, Eris Press has provided us with a comprehensive reflection on why art matters to Fried, and why it ought to matter to anyone.

October 2023Critics Page

Historicized Philosophy

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The most difficult problem in the project of throughgoing historical contextualization continues to be what could be called self-contextualization. Simply put, we want to understand what has happened to us; to take the point of view of a future epoch and ask why matters of significance look to us the way they do.

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