This page intentionally left blank MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, AND MODERNITY Modernphilosophersgenerallyassumethatmusicisaproblemtowhich philosophy ought to offer an answer. Andrew Bowie’s Music, Philoso- phy, and Modernity suggests, in contrast, that music might offer ways of respondingtosomecentralquestionsinmodernphilosophy.Bowielooks 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 current ideas about lan- guage, subjectivity, metaphysics, truth, and ethics, and he suggests that musiccanshowhowthepredominantimagesoflanguage,communica- tion,andmeaningincontemporaryphilosophymaybelackinginessen- tialways.Hisbookwillbeofinteresttophilosophers,musicologists,and allwhoareinterestedintherelationbetweenmusicandphilosophy. andrew bowie is Professor of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway,UniversityofLondon.HismanypublicationsincludeAesthetics andSubjectivity:FromKanttoNietzsche(2003). MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY GeneralEditor RobertB.Pippin,UniversityofChicago AdvisoryBoard GaryGutting,UniversityofNotreDame Rolf-PeterHorstmann,HumboldtUniversity,Berlin MarkSacks,UniversityofEssex Somerecenttitles DanielW.Conway:Nietzsche’sDangerousGame JohnP.McCormick:CarlSchmitt’sCritiqueofLiberalism FrederickA.Olafson:HeideggerandtheGroundofEthics Gu¨nterZo¨ller:Fichte’sTranscendentalPhilosophy WarrenBreckman:Marx,theYoungHegelians,andtheOriginsofRadical SocialTheory WilliamBlattner:Heidegger’sTemporalIdealism CharlesGriswold:AdamSmithandtheVirtuesofEnlightenment GaryGutting:PragmaticLiberalismandtheCritiqueofModernity AllenWood:Kant’sEthicalThought KarlAmeriks:KantandtheFateofAutonomy AlfredoFerrarin:HegelandAristotle CristinaLafont:Heidegger,Language,andWorld-Disclosure NicholasWolsterstorff:ThomasReidandtheStoryofEpistemology DanielDahlstrom:Heidegger’sConceptofTruth MichelleGrier:Kant’sDoctrineofTranscendentalIllusion HenryAllison:Kant’sTheoryofTaste AllenSpeight:Hegel,Literature,andtheProblemofAgency J.M.Bernstein:Adorno WillDudley:Hegel,Nietzsche,andPhilosophy TaylorCarman:Heidegger’sAnalytic DouglasMoggach:ThePhilosophyandPoliticsofBrunoBauer Ru¨digerBubner:TheInnovationsofIdealism JonStewart:Kierkegaard’sRelationstoHegelReconsidered MichaelQuante:Hegel’sConceptofAction WolfgangDetel:FoucaultandClassicalAntiquity RobertM.Wallace:Hegel’sPhilosophyofReality,Freedom,andGod JohannaOksala:FoucaultonFreedom Be´atriceLonguenesse:KantontheHumanStandpoint WayneM.Martin:TheoriesofJudgment HeinrichMeier:LeoStraussandtheTheologico-PoliticalProblem OtfriedHoeffe:Kant’sCosmopolitanTheoryofLawandPeace Be´atriceLonguenesse:Hegel’sCritiqueofMetaphysics RachelZuckert:KantonBeautyandBiology MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, AND MODERNITY ANDREW BOWIE RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB28RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521877343 © Andrew Bowie 2007 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2007 ISBN-13 978-0-511-35443-4 eBook (EBL) ISBN-10 0-511-35443-6 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-87734-3 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-87734-2 hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. ForJames