Music, Philosophy, and Modernity

by Andrew Bowie

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521107822
• ISBN13: 9780521107822
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"