CEPA Faculty Seminar: Robert Pippin

Hegel on the Political Significance of Collective Self-Deceit

Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy, and in the College at the University of Chicago

Rogers Memorial Chapel
Seminar Room
Sponsored by:
Center for Ethics

Event Description

About The Speaker

Robert Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy, and in the College at the University of Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University and specializes in modern German philosophy with a focus on the work of Kant and Hegel. Professor Pippin is the author of twenty books which include, Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 1989), Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and, most recently, After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 2013). In addition to his books, Professor Pippin has published over one hundred and thirty articles in academic journals.

Admission Information

By Invitation Only