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178Aesthetics and subjectivity: from Kant to NietzscheManchester University Press. 1990.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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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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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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83Schelling 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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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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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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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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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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63German 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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15The romantic connection: Neurath, the Frankfurt school, and HeideggerBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (2): 275-298. 2000.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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