In this collection of essays Robert Pippin takes issue with some assessments of what is or is not philosophically at stake in the idea of a modern revolution in Western civilisation, and presents an alternative view. This volume will interest philosophers, literary theorists, and social and political theorists.

1. Introduction: Hegelianism?; Part 1. The Original Options: Kant Versus Hegel: 2. Kant on the spontaneity of mind; 3. On the moral foundations of Kant's Rechtslehre; 4. Hegel, ethical reasons, Kantian rejoinders; 5. Avoiding German idealism: Kant, Hegel, and the reflective judgment problem; Part II. Critical Modernism: 6. Hegel, modernity, and Habermas; 7. Technology as ideology: prospects; Part III. Greeks, Germans and Moderns: 8. The modern world of Leo Strauss; 9. Being, time, and politics: the Strauss-Kojève debate; Part IV. Narrating Modernity: 10. Blumenberg and the modernity problem; 11. Modern mythic meaning: Blumenberg contra Nietzsche; Part V. Modernism and Nihilism: 12. Truth and lies in early Nietzsche; 13. Nietzsche's alleged farewell: the Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Nietzsche; 14. Morality as psychology; psychology as morality: Nietzsche, Eros, and clumsy lovers; Part VI. Heidegger's 'Culmination': 15. On being anti-Cartesian: Hegel, Heidegger, subjectivity and sociality; 16. Heideggerian postmodernism and political metaphysics; Part VII. Hegelianism: 17. Hegel's ethical rationalism.