Music, Philosophy, and Modernity

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ID23802488
AuthorsAlasdair Bowie (0000-0001-5316-4373, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author), Andrew Bowie
Year2007
Publication date2007-09-13
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueMusic, Philosophy, and Modernity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511487569
OpenAlexW1490102596
Open LibraryOL34439459M
ISBN9780511487569
LanguageEN
Citations received20

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 ideas about language, subjectivity, metaphysics, truth and ethics, and he suggests that music can show how the predominant images of language, communication, and meaning in contemporary philosophy may be lacking in essential ways. His book will be of interest to philosophers, musicologists, and all who are interested in the relation between music and philosophy.

Art · Epistemology · German · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Metaphysics · Modern philosophy · Modernity · Music history · Musical · Musicology · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of music · Relation (database) · Subjectivity · Western philosophy · Computer Science · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy

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