Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-19-896500-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

The agenda of analytical philosophy is heavily influenced by the assumptions governing modern scientific knowledge. Such philosophy can consequently neglect questions about why and how things matter at all. Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy explores the idea that, because they offer responses to existential questions of meaning, art and aesthetics are vital for the future of philosophy. Andrew Bowie regards the development of modern scepticism, not primarily as an epistemological problem to be solved, but rather as a symptom of how traditional ways of making sense of the world are disrupted in modernity. The modern attention to art and aesthetics is a response to this disruption, and is explored in Montaigne, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Schelling, the early German Romantics, Hegel, and Cassirer. The work of Karl Polanyi, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, Dewey, and others can suggest how the modern sciences and capitalism change humankind's relationship to nature, and so transform the significance of art, such that art can become a kind of philosophy, and philosophy a kind of art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowie, Andrew

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Bowie is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely in philosophy, as well as on musical and literary topics. His publications include German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction. Bowie studied Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge 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. Bowie is also a jazz saxophonist.