Manfred Frank

Manfred Frank (born March 22, 1945) is a German philosopher, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen. His prolific work focuses on German idealism, romanticism, and the concepts of subjectivity and self-consciousness. His 950-page study of German romanticism, Unendliche Annäherung, has been described as "the most comprehensive and thoroughgoing study of early German romanticism" and "surely one of the most important books from the post-War period on the history of German philosophy."^[1] He has also written at length on analytic philosophy and recent French philosophy.

Life

Frank was born in Elberfeld, Germany, and studied philosophy at the University of Heidelberg under teachers such as Hans Georg Gadamer, Karl Löwith, Ernst Tugendhat, and Dieter Henrich. After teaching at the University of Düsseldorf from 1971 to 1982, and at the University of Geneva from 1982 to 1987, Frank accepted a position at Tübingen in 1987. He is a specialist in the philosophy of literature.

Selected works

Books

He is the author of a wide range of books published in German, French, and English, including:

• The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004. ISBN 141757576X
• The Subject and the Text: Essays on Literary Theory and Philosophy. Cambridge, U.K. & New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 051100513X
• What Is Neostructuralism? Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1989. ISBN 0816615993
• Das Problem "Zeit" in der deutschen Romantik ; Zeitbewusstsein und Bewusstsein von Zeitlichkeit in der frühromantischen Philosophie und in Tiecks Dichtung Paderborn : Winkler Verlag, 1972, 1990. ISBN 353807804
• L'ultime raison du sujet Arles, France : Actes Sud, 1988. ISBN 2868692044
• Einführung in die frühromantische Äthetik. Vorlesungen Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp (es 1563), 1989
• Selbstbewußtsein und Selbsterkenntnis: Essays zur analytischen Philosphie der Subjektivität Stuttgart: Reclam, 1991
• "Unendliche Annäherung". Die Anfänge der philosophischen Frühromantik Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp (stw 1328), 1997
• Auswege aus dem deutschen Idealismus Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp (stw 1851), 2007
• Natura e Spirito. Lezioni sulla filosofia di Schelling, a cura di Emilio Carlo Corriero, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2010

Articles

• “The World as Will and Representation: Deleuze's and Guattari's Critique of Capitalism as Schizo-analysis and Schizo- discourse”. Telos 57 (Fall 1983). New York: Telos Press.

Notes

1. ^ Fred Rush, "Review of The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 9 Dec 2004. [1]

External links

• Frank's University homepage

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