Manfred Frank

Manfred Frank ( born March 22, 1945 in Wuppertal ) is a German philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on German idealism and the philosophy of mind.

Life

Manfred Rudolf Frank grew up as one of two children of a physician and an internist in Wuppertal- Elberfeld. 1951-1954 he went to elementary school at Mirker Bach, 1954-1964, the classical language Wilhelm Dörpfeld High School, from which he graduated with the Abitur.

From 1964 to 1966 he studied philosophy and German literature in Heidelberg. Among his academic teachers were at this time Hans -Georg Gadamer, Arthur Henkel, Karl Löwith Wapnewski Peter and Peter from Polenz. In 1966 he moved to Berlin for a year and heard, among others Wilhelm Weischedel, Peter Szondi, Dieter Henrich and Wilhelm Emrich. In 1967 he returned to Heidelberg and now studied philosophy with a major in English literature and a minor in. Important teachers at this time were Hans -Georg Gadamer, Dieter Henrich, Karl Lowith, Ernst Tugendhat, Arthur Henkel and Rudolf Sühnel. His studies concluded Frank on May 14, 1971, the dissertation on the problem of "time" in German Romanticism. Time-consciousness and consciousness of temporality in the early Romantic philosophy and poetry from Tieck.

From 1971 to 1977, Assistant Professor of Frank Herbert Anton am Chair of Modern German Literature at the University of Dusseldorf. In 1977 he habilitated with Individual General. Text structuring and interpretation according to Schleiermacher. The work was awarded the Friends of the University of Dusseldorf. Then he was from 1977 to 1980 Assistant Professor for Modern German philology in Dusseldorf and was an adjunct professor in 1981. A Heisenberg fellowship of the DFG and a professorship at the University of Bielefeld in 1981 he declined in favor of a call, the University of Geneva, where he worked from 1982 to 1987 as a full professor "modern philosophy et contemporaine " for (successor Jeanne Hersch ). 1986 Frank refused a professorship at the University of Davis, California, from.

Since 1 April 1987, Frank had held a chair in philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Tübingen. The judgment given in 1997 appointed Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, he refused again. 2001 Frank was awarded the honorary doctorate of the University of Pécs (Hungary ), 2004 to the Babes- Bolyai University of Cluj (Romania). Since 1 April 2010 he has been retired.

Work

The center of Frank's research is the phenomenon of self-consciousness, which he edited from philosophy historical and systematic perspective. Play for Frank for an approach from the analytical philosophy a major role. Here he tries to show that self-confidence principle deprives a reductive analysis. In the argument, Frank refers to another heavily on the traditions of the early Romantic period and of German Idealism, especially on Novalis and Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

Frank has also written important works on hermeneutics and post-structuralism.

His "ghost conversation between Lyotard and Habermas " ( The limits of agreement ) of 1988 is a polemic in defense of Jürgen Habermas ' discourse ethics.

Writings

  • The problem of 'time' in German Romanticism. Time-consciousness and consciousness of temporality in the early Romantic philosophy and in Tieck's seal, Winkler, Munich 1972
  • The infinite lack of being. Schelling's critique of Hegel and the beginnings of the Marxian dialectic, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1975
  • The Individual General. Text structuring and interpretation, according to Schleiermacher, Frankfurt 1977
  • The infinite journey. A subject and its text, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1979
  • The speakable and the unspeakable. Studies on the latest French hermeneutics and text theory, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1980
  • The coming of God. Lectures on the New Mythology, Part I, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1982
  • What is neostructuralism? , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1983
  • An introduction to Schelling's philosophy, Frankfurt 1985
  • With Rolf purchase Feldt and Gerhard Clumsy: God in exile. Lectures on the New Mythology, Part II, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1988
  • The Inevitability of individuality. Reflections on subject, person and individual on the occasion of their ' post-modern ' Dead clarification, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1986
  • The limits of understanding. A haunted conversation between Lyotard and Habermas, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1988
  • God in exile. Lectures on the new Mythology, Part II, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 1988
  • Cold heart, Infinite Ride, new mythology. Motif Pathogenesis of Modern, Frankfurt 1989
  • With Gianfranco Soldati: Wittgenstein. Writer and philosopher, Pfullingen 1989
  • Introduction to the early Romantic aesthetics. Lectures, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1989
  • Time consciousness, Pfullingen 1990
  • Self-awareness and self-knowledge. Essays on analytical philosophy of subjectivity, Reclam, Stuttgart, 1991
  • Style in philosophy, Reclam, Stuttgart, 1992
  • " Conditio moderna ". Essays, speeches, program, Reclam, Leipzig 1993
  • " Infinity approach. " The beginnings of the early philosophical romance, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1997
  • Self-esteem. A historical and systematic exploration, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2002
  • Why am I me? A question for children and adults, Island, Frankfurt 2007
  • Ways out of the German Idealism, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 2007.
  • Myths dusk. Richard Wagner in the early romantic context, Wilhelm Fink, 2008.
  • Natura e Spirito. Lezioni sulla filosofia di Schelling, a cura di Carlo Emilio Corriero, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2010.
  • Views of subjectivity. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3518296219
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