Online forum on "The Culmination", by Robert Pippin (11 April, 2025)
Online forum on "The Culmination", by Robert Pippin (11 April, 2025)
The Center of Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University's School of Communication)
& the Center for Transcultural Studies
Jointly present
Questioning the Present: An Online Public Forum on
The Culmination
Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy
(The University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Robert B. Pippin
(Social Thought & Philosophy, University of Chicago)
Respondents
Mark Alznauer
(Philosophy, Northwestern University)
Peter Gordon
(History, Harvard University)
Andreja Novakovic
(Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley)
ON ZOOM
Friday, April 11, 2025
10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CST
Convened by Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University)
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.
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