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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 ...

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Music, Philosophy, and Modernity 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521107822

Trade paperback

Music, Philosophy, and Modernity 2007, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521877343

Hardcover