Robert B.Pippin is an Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago.

He is the author of several books on modern German philosophy, including Kant’s Theory of Form; Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; and Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, a book on philosophy and literature, Henry James and Modern Moral Life; and two books on film, Hollywood Westerns and American Myth, and Fatalism in American Film Noir. He is a past winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Philosophical Society.