Manfred Frank (philosopher)
Manfred Frank (born March 22, 1945 in Wuppertal ) is a German philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen . His main research interests are German idealism and the philosophy of mind .
Life
Manfred-Rudolf Frank grew up as one of two children of a general practitioner and an internist in Wuppertal-Elberfeld. 1951–1954 he attended the elementary school at Mirker Bach , 1954–1964 the old-language Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium , which he graduated with the Abitur.
From 1964 to 1966 he studied philosophy and German in Heidelberg . His academic teachers at this time included Hans-Georg Gadamer , Arthur Henkel , Karl Löwith , Peter Wapnewski and Peter von 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 majored in philosophy and minor in English. Important teachers at this time were Hans-Georg Gadamer, Dieter Henrich , Karl Löwith, Ernst Tugendhat , Arthur Henkel and Rudolf Sühnel . Frank completed his studies on May 14, 1971 with a dissertation on The Problem “Time” in German Romanticism. Time consciousness and consciousness of temporality in the early romantic philosophy and in Tiecks poetry .
From 1971 to 1977 Frank was Herbert Anton's research assistant at the Chair of Modern German Literature at the University of Düsseldorf . In 1977 he qualified as a professor with The Individual General. Text structuring and interpretation according to Schleiermacher. The work was awarded the Friends and Sponsors Prize of the University of Düsseldorf. From 1977 to 1980 he was a private lecturer for modern German philology in Düsseldorf, where he became an adjunct professor in 1981. In 1981 he declined a Heisenberg grant from the DFG and a call to Bielefeld University in favor of a call from the University of Geneva , where he worked as a full professor for "Philosophy modern et contemporaine" (successor to Jeanne Hersch ) from 1982 to 1987 . In 1986, Frank turned down an offer from Davis University, California.
Since April 1, 1987, Frank held a chair for philosophy at the Philosophical Seminar of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. The 1997 call for a professorship for theoretical philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena was turned down again. In 2001 Frank received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pécs (Hungary), and in 2004 from the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj (Romania). In 2004 he was accepted as a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . He has been retired since April 1, 2010.
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The center of Frank's research is the phenomenon of self-confidence , which he works on from a philosophy-historical and systematic perspective. For Frank, approaches from analytical philosophy play a major role. Here he tries to show that self-confidence basically eludes a reductive analysis. On the other hand, Frank refers heavily to the traditions of early Romanticism and German idealism, in particular to Novalis and Johann Gottlieb Fichte .
Frank has also written significant papers on hermeneutics and post-structuralism .
His "Ghost Conversation between Lyotard and Habermas" ( The Limits of Understanding ) from 1988 is a pamphlet in defense of Jürgen Habermas ' ethics of discourse . Christine Pries called Frank's essay "an annoying book". Frank does not take Lyotard's interpretation of Kant seriously enough, wrongly accuses him of performative self-contradictions and misleads the reader with fundamental translation errors.
Fonts
- The problem of 'time' in German romanticism. Time consciousness and consciousness of temporality in early romantic philosophy and in Teck's poetry , Winkler, Munich 1972
- The infinite lack of being. Schelling's criticism of Hegel and the beginnings of Marxian dialectics , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1975
- The individual general. Text structuring and interpretation according to Schleiermacher , Frankfurt 1977
- The endless journey. A motif and its text , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1979
- The sayable and the unspeakable. Studies on the latest French hermeneutics and text theory , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1980
- The coming god. Lectures on New Mythology, Part I , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1982
- What is Neostructuralism? , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1983
- An introduction to Schelling's philosophy , Frankfurt 1985
- with Rolf Kauffeldt and Gerhard Plumpe: God in Exile. Lectures on New Mythology, Part II , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1988
- The inevitability of individuality. Reflections on subject, person and individual on the occasion of their 'postmodern' declaration of death , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1986
- The limits of understanding. A ghost talk 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. Motive studies on the pathogenesis of modernity , Frankfurt 1989
- with Gianfranco Soldati : Wittgenstein . Literary man and philosopher , Pfullingen 1989
- Introduction to early romantic aesthetics. Lectures , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1989
- Time consciousness , Pfullingen 1990
- Self-awareness and self-knowledge. Essays on the analytical philosophy of subjectivity , Reclam, Stuttgart 1991
- Style in Philosophy , Reclam, Stuttgart 1992
- "Conditio moderna". Essays, speeches, program , Reclam, Leipzig 1993
- “Infinite Approach.” The Beginnings of Early Philosophical Romanticism , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1997
- Sense of self. A historical-systematic investigation , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2002
- Why am i me A question for children and adults , Insel, Frankfurt 2007
- Ways out of German idealism , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 2007.
- Dawn of Myths. Richard Wagner in the early romantic context , Wilhelm Fink, 2008.
- Natura e Spirito. Lezioni sulla filosofia di Schelling , a cura di Emilio Carlo Corriero, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2010.
- Views of subjectivity . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3518296219
literature
- Alessandro Bertinetto: Autocoscienza e soggettività nel pensiero di Manfred Frank . Zamorani, Torino 1998, ISBN 88-7158-072-9
- Sabine Wilke: Manfred Frank's Theory of Interpretation . In: Telos, Vol. 75/1988, pp. 180-188
Web links
- Literature by and about Manfred Frank in the catalog of the German National Library
- University homepage with list of publications
- Manfred Frank about himself
- Brain research. Man remains a mystery to himself , interview with Manfred Frank. In: DIE ZEIT, August 27, 2009.
- Manfred Frank: Self-confidence and self-knowledge (PDF; 98 kB), On some difficulties in reducing subjectivity, e-journal Philosophy of Psychology, September 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 97 (1990) 213-217.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frank, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |