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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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41German philosophy: a very short introductionOxford University Press. 2010.The book also highlights the ideas of early German Romantic philosophy, including the works of Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Schleirmacher, and Schelling, ...
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2John McDowell's Mind and World, and early romantic epistemologyRevue Internationale de Philosophie 50 (197): 515-554. 1996.
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Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy. The Original Duplicity of Intelligence and Will (review)Philosophy 75 (2): 296-312. 2000.
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85Schelling and Modern European Philosophy: An IntroductionRoutledge. 1993.Andrew Bowie's book is the first introduction in English to present F W J Schelling as a major European philospher in his own right. _Schelling and Modern European Philosophy_, surveys the whole of Schelling's philosophical career, lucidly reconstructing his key arguments, particularly those against Hegel, and relating them to contemporary philosophical discussion. Dr Bowie traces how central ideas and conceptual strategies in the work of philosophers as diverse as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida …Read more
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64German Philosophy Today: Between Idealism, Romanticism, and PragmatismRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 44 357-398. 1999.In his essayOn the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany, of 1834, Heinrich Heine suggested to his French audience that the German propensity for ‘metaphysical abstractions’ had led many people to condemn philosophy for its failure to have a practical effect, Germany having only had its revolution in thought, while France had its in reality. Heine, albeit somewhat ironically, refuses to join those who condemn philosophy: ‘German philosophy is an important matter, which concerns the whole…Read more
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65_From Romanticism to Critical Theory_ explores the philosophical origins of literary theory via the tradition of German philosophy that began with the Romantic reaction to Kant. It traces the continuation of the Romantic tradition of Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel and Schleiermacher, in Heidegger's approaches to art and thruth, and in the Critical Theory of Benjamin and Adorno. Andrew Bowie argues, against many current assumptions, that the key aspect of literary theory is not the demonstration of …Read more
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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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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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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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