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34The Meaning of the Hermeneutic Tradition in Contemporary PhilosophyRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 41 121-144. 1996.In his Notes on Philosophy , which he began writing in 1796, Friedrich Schlegel asserts that ‘The fact that one person understands the other is philosophically incomprehensible, but it is certainly magical.’ In the interim a large amount of philosophical effort has been expended on trying to refute Schlegel's first claim. The fact is, though, that what Michael Dummett calls a ‘fullblooded theory of meaning’ is now looking less and less like a really feasible philosophical enterprise, so Schlegel…Read more
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8Unreduced experience in the medium of conceptual reflection: Adorno and the future of post-analytical philosophyDanish Yearbook of Philosophy 44 (1): 7-33. 2009.
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179Aesthetics and subjectivity: from Kant to NietzscheManchester University Press. 2003.This new, completely revised and re-written edition of Aesthetics and subjectivity brings up to date the original book's account of the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Fichte and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Schleimacher, to Nietzsche, in view of recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities.
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63Schleiermacher and post-metaphysical thinkingCritical Horizons 5 (1): 165-200. 2004.Schleiermacher rarely features in the now widespread discussion of the relevance of the German Idealist and Romantic traditions for contemporary philosophy because he has mainly been regarded as a theologian and theorist of textual interpretation. This essay shows that his most important philosophical work, the Dialectic, involves many ideas concerning truth and language which are generally regarded as belonging to what Habermas terms 'post-metaphysical thinking'. Schleiermacher's views of truth…Read more
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2Geschichte und Eigensinn (review)Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1985 (66): 183-190. 1985.
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1Review of Adorno. A critical introduction by Simon Jarvis (review)European Journal of Philosophy 6 (3). 1998.
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21German Idealism and the artsIn Karl Ameriks (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 239--257. 2000.
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20Adorno and the Ends of PhilosophyPolity. 2013.Theodor Adorno’s reputation as a cultural critic has been well-established for some time, but his status as a philosopher remains unclear. In _Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy_ Andrew Bowie seeks to establish what Adorno can contribute to philosophy today. Adorno’s published texts are notably difficult and have tended to hinder his reception by a broad philosophical audience. His main influence as a philosopher when he was alive was, though, often based on his very lucid public lectures. Drawin…Read more
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1Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.The founding text of modern hermeneutics. Written by the philosopher and theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher as a method for the interpretation and textual criticism of the New Testament, it develops ideas about language and the interpretation of texts that are in many respects still unsurpassed and are becoming current in the contemporary philosophy of language. Contrary to the traditional view of Schleiermacher as a theorist of empathetic interpretation, in this text he offers a view of unders…Read more
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1On the History of Modern Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.On the History of Modern Philosophy is a key transitional text in the history of European philosophy. In it, F. W. J. Schelling surveys philosophy from Descartes to German Idealism and shows why the Idealist project is ultimately doomed to failure. The lectures trace the path of philosophy from Descartes through Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, to Hegel and Schelling's own work. The extensive critiques of Hegel prefigure many of the arguments to be found in Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Marx, N…Read more
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91Introduction to German Philosophy: From Kant to HabermasPolity. 2003._Introduction to German Philosophy_ is the only book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments of modern German philosophy from Kant to the present. the first book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments of modern German philosophy from Kant to the present. offers an accessible introduction to the work, among others, of Kant, Fichte, the Romantics, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, Husserl, Heidegger, …Read more
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16Fichte's transcendental philosophy. The original duplicity of intelligence and will by Günter Zöller cambridge university press, 1998, ISBN 0-521-59160-0 (hb) £30 (review)Philosophy 75 (2): 296-312. 2000.
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73The romantic connection: Neurath, the Frankfurt school, and HeideggerBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (2). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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38Review of Lydia Goehr, Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (5). 2009.
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165Music, philosophy, and modernityCambridge University Press. 2007.Modern philosophers generally assume that music is a problem to which philosophy ought to offer an answer. Andrew Bowie’s Music, Philosophy, and Modernity suggests, in contrast, that music might offer ways of responding to some central questions in modern philosophy. Bowie looks at key philosophical approaches to music ranging from Kant, through the German Romantics and Wagner, to Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Adorno. He uses music to re-examine many current ideas about language, subjectivity, met…Read more
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