Andrew Bowie (Chair of German at Royal Holloway, University of London; and author of Aesthetics and Subjectivity from Kant to Nietzsche).

In a series of arguments that are closely related to earlier work by Manfred Frank, Bowie discussed the implications for linguistic and non-linguistic art that are implicit in the hermeneutics of Schleiermacher, who was closely associated with the Jena circle.

(Bowie has edited Manfred Frank, The Subject and the Text: Essays on Literary Theory and Philosophy, and he has also translated the Frank edition of Schleiermacher, Hermeneutics and Criticism and Other Writings.)

Bowie put the "hermeneutic turn" of one branch of Early Romanticism into the context of its general understanding of subjectivity as a significant domain that goes beyond the reach of complete conceptual determination. In addition to explaining why the Early Romantics stressed features of language such as style, novelty, and the endless possibility of interpretation, Bowie also built on his expertise in the aesthetics of music, and offered an account of the relation between the philosophy of the Early Romantics and the remarkable growth of interest in this particular art form.

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