Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Much of contemporary philosophy regards aesthetics as of lesser significance than epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, or the philosophy of language. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Grounding the Subject 2: The Nature of the Subject 3: The Aesthetic Demand 4: The Art of Language and the Language of Art 5: The Value of the Aesthetic 6: The World of Art 7: Art, Commodity, and Metaphysics Conclusion

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• Authors: Andrew Bowie, Andrew (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy an Bowie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2025
• EAN: 9780198965008
• ISBN: 978-0-19-896500-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy from c 1800, History of Western philosophy