Robert Pippin

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. Pippin has published two books on philosophy and literature, six books on philosophy and film, and has been a guest professor at the Collège de France, the École Normale Supérieure, the University of Amsterdam, and other universities in Central and South America, Europe, and Asia. His last two books were Robert Bresson: Cinematic Style as Philosophy, and The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy, both published by the University of Chicago Press. He is the author of several books and articles on German idealism and later German philosophy, including Kant's Theory of Form; Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; Modernism as a Philosophical Problem; and Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations.  In addition, he has published work on political philosophy, theories of self-consciousness, the nature of conceptual change, and the problem of freedom. 

He was twice an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, is a winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, and was recently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Pippin is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the American Philosophical Society. He is also a member of the German National Academy of Arts and Sciences.