Modernism as a Philosophical Problem :On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture

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Modernism as a Philosophical Problem

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem :On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture

4.21 (61 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 23 August, 1999
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Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780631214144
ISBN10 0631214143
Number Of Pages 256
Item Weight 397 g
Product Dimensions 154 x 228 x 19 mm
Publisher / Reseller John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format paperback
Edition 2nd edition
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Robert B. Pippin is the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on the modern philosophical tradition and one on literature, Henry James and Modern Moral Life (1999), as well as numerous articles on similar topics.

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