The Culmination

A provocative reassessment of Heideggers critique of German Idealism from one of the traditions foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy endedfailed, evenin the German Idealist tradition. In The Culmination, Robert B. Pippin explores the ramifications of this charge through a masterful survey of Western philosophy, especially Heideggers critiques of Hegel and Kant. Pippin argues that Heideggers basic concern was to determine sources of meaning for human life, particularly those that had been obscured by Western philosophys attention to reason. The Culmination offers a new interpretation of Heidegger, German Idealism, and the fate of Western rationalism.