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Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Much of contemporary philosophy, especially in the analytical
tradition, regards aesthetics as of lesser significance than
epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.
Yet, in Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy, Andrew Bowie
explores the idea that art and aesthetics have crucial implications
for those areas of philosophy. In the modern period, the growth of
warranted scientific knowledge is accompanied both by heightened
concern with epistemological scepticism and a new philosophical
attention to art and the beauty of nature. This suggests that
modernity involves problems concerning how human beings make sense
of the world that go beyond questions of knowledge, and are
reflected in the arts. The relationship of art to philosophy is
explored in Montaigne, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Schelling, the early
German Romantics, and Hegel. This book also considers Cassirer's
and the hermeneutic tradition's exploration of close links between
meaning in language and in art. The work of Karl Polanyi, Marx,
Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, Dewey, and others is used to
investigate how the modern sciences and the development of
capitalism change both humankind's relations to nature and the
nature of value, and so affect the role of art in human
self-understanding. The aesthetic dimensions of modern philosophy
can help to uncover often neglected historical shifts in how
'subjective' and 'objective' are conceived. Seeing art as a kind of
philosophy, and philosophy as a kind of art, reveals unresolved
tensions between the different cultural domains of the modern world
and questions some of the orientation of contemporary philosophy.
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