Background and Research Interests:

Andrew Bowie's research concentrates on the tradition of modern German philosophy from the later eighteenth century to the present. His aim is not just to interpret the key ideas of the major philosophers, both familiar, like Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, and less familiar, like Schlegel, Schleiermacher, and Schelling, but to show their importance for debates in contemporary philosophy and in other areas of the arts and humanities. A major theme of recent work has been the relationship between philosophy and music. A forthcoming research project is concerned with the idea of the 'ends of philosophy' in relation to both analytical and European philosophy.

Selected Recent Publications:

• Introduction to German Philosophy from Kant to Habermas (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003)
• Aesthetics and Subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche, 2nd edn (Manchester University Press, 2003)
• Music, Philosophy, and Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
  
  
• 'Hegel, Brandom, and the Limits of Language', in R. Bubner and G. Hindrichs (eds), Von der Logik zur Sprache (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2007)
• 'German Idealism’s Contested Heritage', in Espen Hammer (ed.), German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives (London, New York: Routledge, 2007)
• 'Romantic Philosophy and Religion' and 'Romanticism and Music', in Nicholas Saul (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• 'Schleiermacher and Postmetaphysical Thinking', in John Rundell, Danielle Petherbridge, Jan Bryant, John Hewitt and Jeremy Smith (eds), Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy (Leiden: Brill, 2005)
• 'Analytische Theorie oder romantische Praxis? Musik, Philosophie, und Selbstbewusstsein', in Thomas Grundmann et al. (eds), Anatomie der Subjektivität. Festschrift für Manfred Frank (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2005)
• 'The Philosophical Significance of Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics', in Jacqueline Mariña (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Schleiermacher (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
• 'Adorno and the Frankfurt School', in Patricia Waugh (ed.), The Theory and Practice of Literary Criticism: an Oxford Guide, (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• 'Gadamer and Romanticism', in B. Krajewski (ed.), Gadamer’s Repercussions (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003)
• 'Adorno, Pragmatism, and Aesthetic Relativism', Revue internationale de philosophie, 227 (2004), special edition on Adorno
• 'Music and the Rise of Aesthetics', in Jim Samson (ed.), The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Fellowships, Honours, etc.

• Member of the Advisory Board of University of London Institute of Philosophy
• Inaugural Distinguished Visitor to The Ashworth Program for Social Theory, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Lectures on Philosophy and Music at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, New School
  National Endowment for the Humanities Guest Fellow, Colorado State University, USA
• Founding Director of Royal Holloway Humanities and Arts Research Centre
• Member of the Benchmarking Academic Standards Group Philosophy for the QAA
• Affiliated Research Scholar in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Tübingen