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While Hegel could never engage modernist painting, he did have an understanding of modernity, and in it, art-he famously asserted-was \"a thing of the past,\" no longer an important vehicle of self-understanding and no longer an indispensable expression of human meaning. Pippin offers a sophisticated exploration of Hegel's position and its implications. He also shows that had Hegel known how the social institutions of his day would ultimately fail to achieve his own version of genuine equality, a mutuality of recognition, he would have had to explore a different, new role for art in modernity.   After laying this groundwork, Pippin goes on to illuminate the dimensions of Hegel's aesthetic approach in the path-breaking works of Manet, the \"grandfather of modernism,\" drawing on art historians T. J. Clark and Michael Fried to do so. He concludes with a look at Cezanne, the \"father of modernism,\" this time as his works illuminate the relationship between Hegel and the philosopher who would challenge Hegel's account of both modernity and art-Martin Heidegger. Elegantly inter-weaving philosophy and art history, After the Beautiful is a stunning reassessment of the modernist project. It gets at the core of the significance of modernism itself and what it means in general for art to have a history. Ultimately, it is a testament, via Hegel, to the distinctive philosophical achievements of modernist art in the unsettled, tumultuous era we have inherited.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227195650421,"sku":"9780226325583","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226325583_51c3b69a-cbf8-4986-a9cc-0c460c8df708.jpg?v=1786012417"},{"product_id":"9780226703411","title":"Hegel`s Realm of Shadows – Logic as Metaphysics in  \"The Science of Logic\"","description":"Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, The Science of Logic. This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists can only be properly understood as a “logic,” or a “science of pure thinking.” Since he also wrote that the proper object of any such logic is pure thinking itself, it has always been unclear in just what sense such a science could be a “metaphysics.” Robert B. Pippin offers here a bold, original interpretation of Hegel’s claim that only now, after Kant’s critical breakthrough in philosophy, can we understand how logic can be a metaphysics. Pippin addresses Hegel’s deep, constant reliance on Aristotle’s conception of metaphysics, the difference between Hegel’s project and modern rationalist metaphysics, and the links between the “logic as metaphysics” claim and modern developments in the philosophy of logic. Pippin goes on to explore many other facets of Hegel’s thought, including the significance for a philosophical logic of the self-conscious character of thought, the dynamism of reason in Kant and Hegel, life as a logical category, and what Hegel might mean by the unity of the idea of the true and the idea of the good in the “Absolute Idea.” The culmination of Pippin’s work on Hegel and German idealism, this is a book that no Hegel scholar or historian of philosophy will want to miss.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227242148213,"sku":"9780226703411","price":29.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226703411_99eca4c5-7350-40d9-aadd-b905b897dacf.jpg?v=1786012666"},{"product_id":"9780226770802","title":"Philosophy by Other Means – The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts","description":"Throughout his career, Robert B. Pippin has examined the relationship between philosophy and the arts. With his writings on film, literature, and visual modernism, he has shown that there are aesthetic objects that cannot be properly understood unless we acknowledge and reflect on the philosophical concerns that are integral to their meaning. His latest book, Philosophy by Other Means, extends this trajectory, offering a collection of essays that present profound considerations of philosophical issues in aesthetics alongside close readings of novels by Henry James, Marcel Proust, and J. M. Coetzee.    The arts hold a range of values and ambitions, offering beauty, playfulness, and craftsmanship while deepening our mythologies and enriching the human experience. Some works take on philosophical ambitions, contributing to philosophy in ways that transcend the discipline’s traditional analytic and discursive forms. Pippin’s claim is twofold: criticism properly understood often requires a form of philosophical reflection, and philosophy is impoverished if it is not informed by critical attention to aesthetic objects. In the first part of the book, he examines how philosophers like Kant, Hegel, and Adorno have considered the relationship between art and philosophy. The second part of the book offers an exploration of how individual artworks might be considered forms of philosophical reflection. Pippin demonstrates the importance of practicing philosophical criticism and shows how the arts can provide key insights that are out of reach for philosophy, at least as traditionally understood.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227590406517,"sku":"9780226770802","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226770802_d62c8027-27c0-4fb1-9b43-e27a893f64cc.jpg?v=1786012755"},{"product_id":"9780226830001","title":"The Culmination – Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy","description":"A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s foremost interpreters.    Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended—failed, even—in the German Idealist tradition. In The Culmination, Robert B. Pippin explores the ramifications of this charge through a masterful survey of Western philosophy, especially Heidegger’s critiques of Hegel and Kant. Pippin argues that Heidegger’s basic concern was to determine sources of meaning for human life, particularly those that had been obscured by Western philosophy’s attention to reason. The Culmination offers a new interpretation of Heidegger, German Idealism, and the fate of Western rationalism.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57697056653685,"sku":"9780226845647","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56228733354357,"sku":"9780226830001","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226845647.jpg?v=1793083624"},{"product_id":"9781350195660","title":"Douglas Sirk","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk's films are rich with irony, insight and depth. Indeed Sirk's films, often celebrated as classics of the genre, are attempts to subvert rather than conform to rules of conventional melodrama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe visual style, story and characters of films like \u003ci\u003eAll That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImitation of Life \u003c\/i\u003eare explored to argue for Sirk as an incredibly nuanced moral thinker. Instead of imposing moralising judgements on his characters, Sirk presents them as people who do 'wrong' things often without understanding why or how, creating a complex and unsettling ethics. Pippin argues that it this moral ambiguity and ironic richness enables Sirk to produce films that grapple with important themes such as race, class and gender with real force and political urgency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas Sirk\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eFilmmaker and Philosopher \u003c\/i\u003eargues for a filmmaker who was a 'disruptive not restorative' auteur and one who broke the rules in the most interesting and subtle of ways.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56297620734325,"sku":"9781350195660","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350195677.jpg?v=1792686174"},{"product_id":"9780226672007","title":"Filmed Thought – Cinema as Reflective Form","description":"With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin, however, wants us to consider a more radical proposition: film as thought, as a reflective form. Pippin explores this idea through a series of perceptive analyses of cinematic masterpieces, revealing how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features and problems of shared human life.   Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in Almod var's Talk to Her, goodness and naivete in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk's All that Heaven Allows, politics and society in Polanski's Chinatown and Malick's The Thin Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place and in the Dardennes' oeuvre. In each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films exceptional as technical works of art (paying special attention to the role of cinematic irony) and as intellectual and philosophical achievements. Throughout, he shows how films offer a view of basic problems of human agency from the inside and allow viewers to think with and through them. Captivating and insightful, Filmed Thought shows us what it means to take cinema seriously not just as art, but as thought, and how this medium provides a singular form of reflection on what it is to be human.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311627088245,"sku":"9780226672007","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226672007_35e05ed8-e526-4d70-ac95-0adcd24c0b47.jpg?v=1786012640"},{"product_id":"9780226845043","title":"Robert Bresson – Cinematic Style as Philosophy","description":"A philosophical engagement with Bresson’s many films, attentive to more than their religiosity.      Over a forty-year career, Robert Bresson developed one of the most distinctive cinematic styles in the history of filmmaking. 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