Manfred Frank

Manfred Frank (born March 22, 1945) is a German philosopher,

Manfred Frank
emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen.
His work focuses on German idealism, romanticism, and the Born 22 March 1945
concepts of subjectivity and self-consciousness. His 950-page Elberfeld, Germany
study of German romanticism, Unendliche Annäherung, has been
Era Contemporary
described as "the most comprehensive and thoroughgoing study of
early German romanticism" and "surely one of the most important philosophy
books from the post-War period on the history of German Region Western philosophy
philosophy."[1] He has also written at length on analytic School Continental philosophy
philosophy and recent French philosophy.
Main Philosophy of subjectivity
interests and self-consciousness,
history of philosophy,
Contents philosophy of literature
Life Influences
Selected works Dieter Henrich, Friedrich
Books Schleiermacher, Hans-Georg
Articles Gadamer

Notes Influenced

Further reading Lorenz Bruno Puntel

External links

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 1-4175-7576-X
The Subject and the Text: Essays on Literary Theory and Philosophy. Cambridge, U.K. &
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-511-00513-X
What Is Neostructuralism? Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1989. ISBN 0-8166-
1599-3
 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 978-3-538-07804-8
L'ultime raison du sujet. Arles, France : Actes Sud, 1988. ISBN 2-86869-204-4
Einführung in die frühromantische Ästhetik. Vorlesungen Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp (es
1563), 1989
Selbstbewußtsein und Selbsterkenntnis: Essays zur analytischen Philosophie 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 (http://www.telospress.com) 57 (Fall 1983).
New York: Telos Press.
‘Non-objectal Subjectivity’, Journal of Consciousness Studies 14: 5–6, 152–173, May / June
2007.
"Qu’est-ce qu’un texte littéraire et que signifie sa compréhension?", in Revue Internationale
de Philosophie, vol. 41, nº 162/163 (3-4), « Philosophie de la Littérature », 1987, p. 378-397.
Partial translation of an article originally published in German. (Read online (http://ionas-edit
ions.com/en/2017/01/08/1516/)).

Notes
1. Fred Rush, "Review of The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism (http://
ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1024)," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 9 Dec 2004.

Further reading
Alessandro Bertinetto "Autocoscienza e soggettività nel pensiero di Manfred Frank" (https://s
ites.google.com/site/alessandrobertinetto/) Torino: Zamorani, 1998.

External links
Frank's University homepage (https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/f
achbereiche/philosophie-rhetorik-medien/philosophisches-seminar/mitarbeiter/prof-dr-dres-
h-c-manfred-frank.html)

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