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11The Contemporary Significance of Early German Romantic PhilosophyHuman Affairs 33 (4): 382-390. 2023.Recent interest in early German Romantic philosophy can be linked to other approaches, such as that of John Dewey, which are critical of the dominant direction of modern philosophy. The Romantics rethink the relationship between philosophy and art as a way of questioning modern philosophy’s focus on epistemology and scepticism that leads to a lack of attention to the diverse other ways in which human beings make sense of things.
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3Hermeneutics and Modern PhilosophyIn Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.While people have a remarkable facility for understanding often hugely complex forms of communication and interaction in everyday cultural and social contexts, from the structures of symphonic works to what their partner means when they say “I don't understand Brahms”, philosophical analysis seeks to isolate one form of understanding as if it were the key to all others. In order to become language, noises and marks have to be in a manner in which non‐linguistic things are not. The essential divi…Read more
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5Adorno and JazzIn Peter Eli Gordon (ed.), A companion to Adorno, Wiley. 2019.Adorno's essay “On Jazz” of 1936 sees jazz as a commodity in the culture industry and as merely a perverted form of symbolic revolt against social injustice. This assessment is often echoed in his later work referring to jazz. He consequently fails to respond to the detail of the dynamic and rapid development of jazz in the twentieth century. This failure can be seen as a result of some of his assumptions about philosophical approaches to music. Adorno's focus on “what jazz is really saying in s…Read more
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15Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2022.Much of contemporary philosophy regards aesthetics as of lesser significance than epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, or the philosophy of language. Here, Andrew Bowie explores the crucial implications that art and aesthetics have for those areas of philosophy, revealing unresolved tensions between the different cultural domains of the modern world.
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7Gadamer’s Repercussions: Reconsidering Philosophical Hermeneutics (edited book)Univ of California Press. 2004."Gadamer’s Repercussions is a terrific collection of essays. While Gadamer is not the most precise of philosophers, he turns out, in this book at least, to be among the most generative. The essays prove that Gadamer’s idealizing of dialogue can actually be put in practice by careful attention to the frameworks he addresses. I was most impressed by the essays that situate his ethics, his aesthetics, his relation to romanticism, his understanding of the relation of law and morality, his engagement…Read more
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6Adorno, Heidegger og mening i musikkenAgora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 19 (4): 29-58. 2004.
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11The ‘Philosophy of Performance’ and the Performance of PhilosophyPerformance Philosophy 1 (1): 51-58. 2015.The notion of the 'philosophy of x', which has recently tended to become part of many subjects, from music to management, tends to obscure a range of important issues. The idea behind it seems to be that, by designating one's reflections on a subject as the ‘philosophy’ of whatever it is one is reflecting about, one achieves some kind of higher insight. Such an approach arguably grants too much to a subject whose main manifestation is actually endless disagreement on fundamental issues. In the l…Read more
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1Oldest system programme of German idealismAesthetics and Subjectivity : From Kant to Nietzsche. 1990.
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9The romantic connection: Neurath, the Frankfurt school, and Heidegger, part twoBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (3): 459-483. 2000.
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24The Actuality of Schelling's Hegel-CritiqueHegel Bulletin 11 (1-2): 19-29. 1990.In the English-speaking world it is not clear that any of the later Schelling's critique of Hegel haseverdirectly been part of serious philosophical debate, though its indirect effects, via the work of Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche and others, are oftenunconsciouslypresent in contemporary debates. How this fact looks in terms of a Hegelian conception of the history of philosophy is a question that would require more space than I have here. What I want to suggest is that the confrontation with Hegel…Read more
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16The romantic connection: Neurath, the Frankfurt school, and HeideggerBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (2): 275-298. 2000.
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15Adorno and Existence by Peter E. GordonJournal of the History of Philosophy 55 (3): 550-551. 2017.The Anglophone reception of the work of T. W. Adorno has yet to succeed in making him a major part of mainstream philosophical debate. Among the reasons for this are the refusal of too many analytic philosophers to consider alternative approaches to philosophy, and Adorno's writing style, which does not always offer direct points of access for other philosophical traditions. Things are also not helped by the fact that writers on Adorno can tend to adopt some of his mode of writing, on the basis …Read more
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The Actuality Of Schelling's Hegel-CritiqueBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 21 19-29. 1990.
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1What comes after art?In John J. Joughin & Simon Malpas (eds.), The New Aestheticism, Manchester University Press. pp. 72. 2003.
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72Adorno, Heidegger and the Meaning of MusicThesis Eleven 56 (1): 1-23. 1999.T. W. Adorno's philosophy of music aims to show that music is a source of important insights into the nature of modern society. This position leads, though, to a series of methodological difficulties, some of which can be alleviated by using resources from Heidegger's hermeneutics. The essay takes the key notion of `judgementless synthesis' from Adorno's unfinished book on Beethoven and connects it to Heidegger's account of pre-propositional under-standing and to Kant's notion of schematism. Thi…Read more
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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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