In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel s approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in history: modernism. InAfter the Beautiful, Robert B. Pippin, looking at modernist paintings by artists such as Edouard Manet and Paul Cezanne through Hegel s lens, does what Hegel never had the chance...

In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philosophy itself. In doing so, he reconceives philosophical scholarship as a kind of network of philosophical interanimations, one in which major positions in the history of philosophy, when they are themselves properly understood within their own historical context, form philosophy s lingua franca. Examining a number of philosophers to explore the...

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel s approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in history: modernism. InAfter the Beautiful, Robert B. Pippin, looking at modernist paintings by artists such as Edouard Manet and Paul Cezanne through Hegel s lens, does what Hegel never had the chance...