Insegna attualmente all'Università di Chicago, si è occupato perlopiù di studi storici e filosofici legati a Kant, Hegel e la filosofia tedesca.
Bibliografia Opere (in italiano) Sull'autocoscienza in Hegel. Desiderio e morte nella fenomenologia dello spirito, Lecce, Pensa Multimedia, 2014. ISBN 978-88-6760-224-7
Opere (in inglese) Kant's Theory of Form: An Essay on the 'Critique of Pure Reason', New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. Marcuse: Critical Theory and The Promise of Utopia, eds. R. Pippin, A. Feenberg, C. Webel. MacMillan (Great Britain), Bergin and Garvey (USA), 1988. Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Henry James and Modern Moral Life, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Hegel on Ethics and Politics, eds. Robert Pippin and Otfried Höffe, Translated by Nicholas Walker, Introduction by Robert Pippin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Die Verwirklichung der Freiheit, forward by Axel Honneth and Hans Joas, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag, 2005. The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Nietzsche, moraliste français: La conception nietzschéenne d'une psychologie philosophique, Paris: Odile Jacob, 2005. "Introduction" to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and edited with Adrian del Caro, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Interanimations: Receiving Modern German Philosophy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Hegel's Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in Hegel's Science of Logic, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024..
Letteratura secondaria Luca Corti, Ritratti hegeliani, Roma, Carocci, 2014. ISBN 9788843071487
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