{{Short description|Hegel scholar}} {{Infobox philosopher|region=Western philosophy|era=Contemporary philosophy|image=|caption=|name=Brady Bowman|birth_date=1970|birth_place=|death_date=|death_place=|school_tradition=German idealism|institutions=Penn State University|main_interests=|thesis_title=Sinnliche Gewißheit : zur systematischen Vorgeschichte eines Problems des deutschen Idealismus|thesis_url=https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050047027|thesis_year=2001|doctoral_advisor=|academic_advisors=|doctoral_students=|notable_ideas=|spouse=|education=Free University Berlin (PhD)|awards=|website=https://philosophy.la.psu.edu/people/blb42/}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}
'''Brady Bowman''' (born 1970) is an American philosopher who is an associate professor of philosophy at Penn State University. His specialization is classical German philosophy, mostly Hegel, but also the period's other major figures, specially Jacobi and Schelling, as well as relevant early modern thinkers such as Descartes and Spinoza. He is the vice-president of the International Hegel Society and co-editor (with Birgit Sandkaulen) of the journal Hegel-Studien.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Brady Bowman |url=https://philosophy.la.psu.edu/people/blb42/ |access-date=May 6, 2025 |website=Department of Philosophy |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Biography == Bowman received his first degree in philosophy and modern German literature from the Freie Universität Berlin. He earned his doctorate from the same University, by defending his dissertation ''Sinnliche Gewißheit : zur systematischen Vorgeschichte eines Problems des deutschen Idealismus''<ref>Sensory Certainty: On the systematic prehistory of a problem of German idealism</ref> in 2001.<ref>{{Citation |last=Bowman |first=Brady |title=Sinnliche Gewißheit: Zur systematischen Vorgeschichte eines Problems des deutschen Idealismus |date=2009-01-01 |work=Sinnliche Gewißheit |url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1524/9783050047027/html |access-date=2025-05-08 |publisher=Akademie Verlag |language=de |doi=10.1524/9783050047027 |isbn=978-3-05-004702-7|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Bowman |first=Brady |date=2001 |title=Sinnliche Gewißheit: zur systematischen Vorgeschichte eines Problems des deutschen Idealismus |url=https://fu-berlin.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?&context=L&vid=49KOBV_FUB:FUB&search_scope=FUB_CDI&tab=FUB_CDI&docid=alma990025555940402883 |access-date=May 6, 2025 |publisher=Akademie Verlag |isbn= 3-05-003856-X |language=de}}</ref> From 2000–2007, he was part of a DFG-funded Sonderforschungsbereich (collaborative research center) called "Ereignis Weimar-Jena: Kultur um 1800" at the University of Jena. He became a professor at Penn State in 2007.<ref name=":0" />
In his 2013 book ''Hegel's Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity'' Bowman offers a metaphysical reading of Hegel, that both offers a 'radical transformation of philosophical critique' (as with Kantianism) and a 'compelling rehabilitation of rationalist metaphysics', that runs counter to the non-metaphysical readings of Hegel put forth by Robert Pippin, John McDowell and Terry Pinkard. In short Bowman sees Hegel's 'metaphysics of absolute negativity' as a response to critiques of metaphysics by Kant and Jacobi.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hackett |first=Timothy M. |date=October 2015 |title=Brady Bowman. Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolut Negativity. Cambridge, New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-11070-3359-7. Pp xvi + 280. $54.50. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hegel-bulletin/article/abs/brady-bowman-hegel-and-the-metaphysics-of-absolut-negativity-cambridge-new-york-oxford-university-press-2013-isbn-9781107033597-pp-xvi-280-5450/7BE8D67FD20088E19340842B122A3C85 |journal=Hegel Bulletin |language=en |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=268–273 |doi=10.1017/hgl.2015.21 |issn=2051-5367|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The book has also been reviewed by Dean Moyar,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moyar |first=Dean |title=Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/hegel-and-the-metaphysics-of-absolute-negativity/ |website=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews}}</ref> Paul Gilad,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Giladi |first=Paul |date=October 1, 2013 |title=Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09672559.2013.832910 |journal=International Journal of Philosophical Studies |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=612–617 |doi=10.1080/09672559.2013.832910 |issn=0967-2559|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Riccardo Pozzo,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pozzo |first=Riccardo |date=2014 |title=Review of Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity. Modern European Philosophy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24636546 |journal=The Review of Metaphysics |volume=68 |issue=1 |pages=156–158 |jstor=24636546 |issn=0034-6632}}</ref> Giovanna Miolli,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Review: B. Bowman, "Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity" (G. Miolli) {{!}} hegelpd |url=https://www.hegelpd.it/hegel/review-b-bowman-hegel-and-the-metaphysics-of-absolute-negativity-g-miolli/ |access-date=May 6, 2025 |language=en-US}}</ref> and Christophe Bouton<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bouton |first1=Christophe |last2=Bowman |first2=Brady |date=2015 |title=Review of Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity, BowmanBrady |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26595914 |journal=Hegel-Studien |volume=49 |pages=202–205 |jstor=26595914 |issn=0073-1587}}</ref> among others.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hegel+and+the+Metaphysics+of+Absolute+Negativity.-a0370320673 |access-date=May 6, 2025 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}</ref>
== Selected publications ==
* {{Cite book |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139520201 |chapter= |doi=10.1017/CBO9781139520201 |title=Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity |date=2013 |last1= Bowman|first1= Brady|isbn=978-1-139-52020-1}} * {{Cite book |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511596858 |chapter= |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511596858 |title=Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Heidelberg Writings |date=2009 |last1=Hegel |first1=Georg Wilhelm Fredrich |isbn=978-0-521-83300-4 |editor-first1=Brady |editor-first2=Allen |editor-link2=Allen Speight |editor-last1=Bowman |editor-last2=Speight}}
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