Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy

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Andrew Bowie (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and German, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and German, Royal Holloway University of London)

Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy

Andrew Bowie (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and German, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and German, Royal Holloway University of London)

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Oxford University Press
23 June 2022

History of Western philosophy; Philosophy: aesthetics

Much of contemporary philosophy, especially in the analytical tradition, regards aesthetics as of lesser significance than epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Yet, in Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy, Andrew Bowie explores the idea that art and aesthetics have crucial implications for those areas of philosophy. In the modern period, the growth of warranted scientific knowledge is accompanied both by heightened concern with epistemological scepticism and a new philosophical attention to art and the beauty of nature. This suggests that modernity involves problems concerning how human beings make sense of the world that go beyond questions of knowledge, and are reflected in the arts. The relationship of art to philosophy is explored in Montaigne, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Schelling, the early German Romantics, and Hegel. This book also considers Cassirer's and the hermeneutic tradition's exploration of close links between meaning in language and in art. The work of Karl Polanyi, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, Dewey, and others is used to investigate how the modern sciences and the development of capitalism change both humankind's relations to nature and the nature of value, and so affect the role of art in human self-understanding. The aesthetic dimensions of modern philosophy can help to uncover often neglected historical shifts in how 'subjective' and 'objective' are conceived. Seeing art as a kind of philosophy, and philosophy as a kind of art, reveals unresolved tensions between the different cultural domains of the modern world and questions some of the orientation of contemporary philosophy.

By: Andrew Bowie (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and German Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and German Royal Holloway University of London)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780192847737
ISBN 10: 0192847732
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 23 June 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1: Grounding the Subject 2: The Nature of the Subject 3: The Aesthetic Demand 4: The Art of Language and the Language of Art 5: The Value of the Aesthetic 6: The World of Art 7: Art, Commodity, and Metaphysics Conclusion

Andrew Bowie is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published very widely on Philosophy, as well as musical and literary topics, including German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction. He studied Modern Languages at Cambridge University and attained a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of East Anglia. He was a DAAD scholar at the Free University in Berlin, Professor of Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in Philosophy at Tübingen University, and twice Leverhulme Major Research Fellow in Philosophy. He is also a jazz saxophonist.

Reviews for Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy

Andrew Bowie's Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy is a tour-de-force and astonishingly wide-ranging exploration of the idea of art as a form of philosophical thought. It is also as compelling a defense of that idea as any written; erudite, original, lucid, fair-minded, and wise. It is as well a deeply thoughtful reflection on the great dissonance in modernity between the spectacular success of modern natural science and technology, on the one hand, and the ever more impoverished sources of meaning on the other. This is an invaluable contribution to our attempts to understand ourselves in this destitute time. * Robert B. Pippin, The University of Chicago *