Philosophical Variations: Music as 'Philosophical Language'

Andrew Bowie

ISBN 10: 8787564157 / ISBN 13: 9788787564151

Published by NSU Press, 2010

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Excellent condition. Spine and cover edges are gently shelf worn. Front cover is lightly scuffed but legibility is not impacted. Inside is clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philosophical Variations: Music as 'Philosophical Language'
• Publisher: NSU Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8787564157
• ISBN 13: 9788787564151
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

The occasional essays which form the present volume document the author's sense that what he initially thought of as separate intellectual and existential compartments in his life, in which his professional philosophical and literary concerns bore little relation to his love for playing and listening to music, have to be connected if the theories in one area are not to be contradicted by practice in another, and vice versa. The essays rely on crossing disciplinary and thematic boundaries, and on a critical attitude to dominant analytical ways of doing philosophy. They confront philosophical approaches to language with ways of seeing music as a language, investigate the significance of music for ethics and of ethics for music, examine the relationship of theory to practice in musical improvisation, consider Shakespeare as a key theme in modern philosophy, interogate ways of philosophising about the history of philosophy, and question the nature of 'Continental philosophy'. Andrew Bowie is Professor of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London.

About the Author

Andrew Bowie is Professor of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published very widely on modern philosophy, music, and literature, and is a jazz saxophonist. His books are Aesthetics and Subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche (1990, 2nd edition 2003); Schelling and Modern European Philosophy; Introduction to, edition and translation of F.W.J., von Schelling: `On the History of Modern Philosophy'; From Romanticism to Critical Theory. The Philosophy of German Literary Theory; Introduction to and Editor of Manfred Frank: `The Subject and the Text'; Introduction to, edition and translation of F.D.E. Schleiermacher, `Hermeneutics and Criticism' and Other Writings; Introduction to German Philosophy from Kant to Habermas; Music, Philosophy, and Modernity; and The Very Short Introduction to German Philosophy.