Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 May 2025
- ISBN 9780198965008
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 235x155x14 mm
- Weight 366 g
- Language English 599
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Short description:
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.
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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.
Andrew Bowie's Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy is a tour-de-force and astonishingly wide-ranging exploration of the idea of art as a form of philosophical thought. It is also as compelling a defense of that idea as any written; erudite, original, lucid, fair-minded, and wise. It is as well a deeply thoughtful reflection on the great "dissonance" in modernity between the spectacular success of modern natural science and technology, on the one hand, and the ever more impoverished sources of meaning on the other. This is an invaluable contribution to our attempts to understand ourselves in this "destitute" time.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Grounding the Subject
The Nature of the Subject
The Aesthetic Demand
The Art of Language and the Language of Art
The Value of the Aesthetic
The World of Art
Art, Commodity, and Metaphysics
Conclusion
