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University of East Anglia. Free University of Berlin.
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Andrew Bowie
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He has worked to promote a better understanding of German philosophy in the Anglophone analytical tradition - including the works of Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Theodor West. Adorno, Jürgen Habermas, and Manfred Frank. Frank and Habermas have spoken highly of his work in this area. He has translated the works of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Friedrich Schleiermacher.
His recent work has focused on music and philosophy, and Adorno on the nature of philosophy.
In addition to his philosophical work on music, he is a keen jazz saxophonist and has played with leading contemporary jazz musicians. He did his doctoral research on "History and the Novel" (1980) at the University of East Anglia, where he was taught by the renowned German writer and scholar West. G. Sebald (who later cited Bowie"s work on Alexander Kluge in his Campo Santo).
He studied German philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. He was Professor of Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University until 1999.
He was also Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Philosophy department of Tübingen University.
He is on the Advisory Council for the Institute of Philosophy.
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