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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Bowie is Chair of German at Royal Holloway University of London Klappentext Reconsiders the path of German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, in relation to consciousness, aesthetics and language. The book traces the beginning of modern debates on aesthetics and politics, as well as hermeneutics, paying attention to the significance of music in modern philosophy. Zusammenfassung Reconsiders the path of German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, in relation to consciousness, aesthetics and language. The book traces the beginning of modern debates on aesthetics and politics, as well as hermeneutics, paying attention to the significance of music in modern philosophy. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroductionAesthetics and modernityAesthetics and 'post-modernity'1. Modern Philosophy and the Emergence of Aesthetic Theory: KantSelf-consciousness, knowledge and freedomThe unification of natureThe purpose of beautyThe limits of beauty2. German Idealism and Early German RomanticismThinking the InfiniteA 'new mythology'3. Reflections on the Subject: Fichte, Holderlin and NovalisSelf and OtherFichteHolderlinNovalis4. Schelling: Art and the 'Organ of Philosophy'Nature and philosophyThe development of consciousnessIntuition and conceptThe 'organ of philosophy'Mythology, art and modernityMythology, language and being5. Hegel: the beginning of Aesthetic Theory and the end of ArtWhich Hegel?Self-recognitionMusic and the IdeaLanguage, consciousness and beingThe Idea as sensuous appearanceThe prose of the modern worldPhilosophy and art after Hegel6. Schleiermacher: Art and InterpretationLinguisticThe 'art of disagreement'Immediate self-consciousnessArt as free production: 'individual' and 'identical' activityHemeneutics as artLiterature and the 'musical'7. Music, Language and LiteratureLanguage and musicHegel and Romanticism: music, logos, and feelingThe 'presence' of music'Infinite reflection' and music8. Nietzsche and the Fate of Romantic ThoughtThe Old and the New NietzschesSchopenhauer: Music as MetaphysicsMarx, mythology, and artArt, myth, and music in 'The Birth of Tragedy'Myth, music, and languageThe illusion of truthMusic and metaphysicsAesthetics , 'interpretation', and subjectivityConclusionThe so-called 'Oldest System Programme of German Idealism' References...
