Philosophy by Other Means

The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts

Robert B. Pippin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2021
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-77080-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Henry James and Modern Moral Life, After the Beautiful, several books on modern German philosophy, and five books on film and philosophy, most recently, Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Part One: The Arts in Philosophy

1. Philosophical Criticism

2. Kant and the Problem of Tragedy

3. The Status of Literature in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: On the Lives of Concepts

4. The Absence of Aesthetics in Hegel’s Aesthetics

5. Hegel on Painting

6. Authenticity in Painting: Remarks on Michael Fried’s Art History

7. Photography as Art: Fried and Intention

8. Adorno, Aesthetic Negativity, and the Problem of Idealism

Part Two: Philosophy in the Arts

9. On Maisie’s Knowing Her Own Mind

10. Subjectivity: A Proustian Problem

11. The Shadow of Love: The Role of Jealousy in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu

12. The Paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J. M. Coetzee

13. Philosophical Fiction? On J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello

Acknowledgments

Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	7 halftones
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	0-226-77080-X / 022677080X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-77080-2 / 9780226770802
Zustand	Neuware