This is the most important book on Hegel to have appeared in the past ten years. Robert Pippin offers a completely new interpretation of Hegel's idealism, which focuses on Hegel's appropriation and development of kant's theoretical project. Hegel is presented neither as a precritical metaphysician nor as a social theorist, but as a critical philosopher whose disagreements with Kant, especially on the issue of intuitions, enrich the idealist arguments against empiricism, realism and naturalism. In the face of the dismissal of absolute idealism as either unintelligible or implausible, Pippin explains and defends an original account of the philosophical basis for Hegel's claims about the historical and social nature of selfconsciousness, and so of knowledge itself.

羅伯特.B.皮平(Robert B.Pippin)，現任芝加哥大學社會思想委員會主任、哲學係教授。

他主編現代歐洲哲學(Modern：European Philosophy)叢書，該叢書收錄研究現代歐洲思想的名傢名著，由聲譽卓著的劍橋大學齣版社齣版。Idealism as Modernism亦是其中之一。

皮平教授的著作反響強烈，影響重大，他的作品是學術水準的象徵。《黑格爾的觀念論》一書在當代黑格爾學界産生深遠的影響。例如，著名黑格爾學者特瑞·平卡德(Terry Pinkard)在其《黑格爾的現象學》(Hegel’s Phenomenology，New York：Cambridge，1994)一書的答謝辭中明確承認，在所有當代闡釋黑格爾的學者中，皮平的著作最深刻的改變瞭他對黑格爾的觀點。此外，德國Campus；齣版社編輯、翻譯齣版他的文集(Die Verwirklichung der Freiheit)；德國Fink,齣版社翻譯齣版他的《亨利.詹姆斯與現代道德生活》一書(Moral undModerne)。