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| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Wożniak, Wojciech |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | not pull any punches here: readers unfamiliar with this field will not find the book an easy read. But the subject is not an easy one, and to pretend otherwise would be to reproduce the banality of common sense that German philosophy is striving to challenge. In fact Bowie’s expositions are in general remarkably well balanced and lucid, even elegant, and the book benefits greatly from the continuity and coherence of its central arguments. There is of course little space in a book like this in which to discuss the merits or demerits of particular arguments, and on the occasions when Bowie does suggest an evaluative judgement of this kind it is often so condensed that it raises as many questions as it answers. What is perhaps more important is that the reader is provoked to independent reflection and is shown how the questions raised by German philosophy are still today hotly contested, providing a contentious counterpoint to the onward march of technology and a possible theoretical basis for understanding the contradictions in which science is becoming entangled. German philosophy has within it the possibility, in the words Bowie quotes from Habermas (p. 124), that it may ‘help to set in motion again the frozen interplay between the cognitive-instrumental, the moral-practical and the aesthetic-expressive, which is like a mobile that has become stubbornly entangled’. This reminiscence of Kant on the penultimate page of the book emphasises the continued force and relevance of a German tradition that has in the English-speaking world long been considered speculative and wilfully obscure and which Bowie has here helped to make accessible to English-speaking readers. This well-presented volume concludes with an annotated bibliography which encourages the reader to further exploration—and to further reflection on the often divergent interpretations of German philosophical traditions which Bowie has here so successfully drawn together. |
| Starting Page | 300 |
| Ending Page | 302 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/14782804.2011.580927 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/587633239.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2011.580927 |
| Volume Number | 19 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
