Quote of the day
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Robert B. Pippin
Born: September 14, 1948 (age 76)
Bio: Robert Buford Pippin is an American philosopher. He is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago.
Known for:
- Modernism as a philosophical problem (1991)
- Hegel's idealism (1989)
- Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (2010)