Pippin's reading of Hegel's idealism

This thesis of this paper is that Hegel's philosophy should be read in light of the two basic Kantian themes of the a priori unity of the apperceptive self and of the self-reflexiveness of knowledge and experience. I argue further that such an interpretation of Hegel precludes a reading of him as both a pre-critical philosophy thinker as regards the theory of knowledge and as a pre-critical metaphysical monist. My reading of Hegel is based on the construal of his philosophy put forward by Robert Pippin in his book Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness.;I argue that the major problem which such a reading of Hegel creates is a construal of his philosophy as subjective idealism.