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Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy, University of Chicago Press, 2024, 235pp., $40.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780226830001.
Reviewed by Sebastian Gardner, University College London
The Culmination is on one level a first-rate study of Heidegger’s critical commentary on classical German philosophy. It contains, among much else, a careful history of the relevant texts, along with accounts of the relation of Being and Time to the later work, familiar high-points such as the alleged buried theory of transcendental imagination in Kant, Heidegger’s criticism of Kant’s moral theory, the puzzling reversals of estimate (Heidegger’s declared discovery of a predecessor, followed shortly by dissatisfaction, in the cases of Kant and Schelling), Heidegger’s dissatisfaction with idealism, and Heidegger’s increasing investment in art. Nor are core Heideggerean themes like the question of the meaning of Being overlooked. The book will hold its own simply as an advanced study of Heidegger. But to so describe…
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