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.

罗伯特.B.皮平(Robert B.Pippin)，现任芝加哥大学社会思想委员会主任、哲学系教授。

他主编现代欧洲哲学(Modern：European Philosophy)丛书，该丛书收录研究现代欧洲思想的名家名著，由声誉卓著的剑桥大学出版社出版。Idealism as Modernism亦是其中之一。

皮平教授的著作反响强烈，影响重大，他的作品是学术水准的象征。《黑格尔的观念论》一书在当代黑格尔学界产生深远的影响。例如，著名黑格尔学者特瑞·平卡德(Terry Pinkard)在其《黑格尔的现象学》(Hegel’s Phenomenology，New York：Cambridge，1994)一书的答谢辞中明确承认，在所有当代阐释黑格尔的学者中，皮平的著作最深刻的改变了他对黑格尔的观点。此外，德国Campus；出版社编辑、翻译出版他的文集(Die Verwirklichung der Freiheit)；德国Fink,出版社翻译出版他的《亨利.詹姆斯与现代道德生活》一书(Moral undModerne)。