Manfred Geier

Manfred Geier at the Leipzig Book Fair 2012

Manfred Geier (born March 25, 1943 in Troppau ) is a German Germanist and journalist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1962, Geier studied German, political science and philosophy at the universities of Frankfurt , Berlin and Marburg until 1968 . There he worked from 1970 to 1979 as a research assistant and received his doctorate in 1973 under Gisbert Keseling with the thesis linguistic structuralism as language competence theory. On Noam Chomsky's "revolutionizing" linguistics . His habilitation took place with cultural-historical language analyzes in 1982 at the University of Marburg. From 1982 to 1987 he was an adjunct professor for linguistics at the University of Hanover. He stopped teaching in 1998.

Geier lives in Hamburg as a freelance academic journalist and author.

Fonts (selection)

• The love of the philosophers. From Socrates to Foucault. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2020. ISBN 978-3-498-02543-4 .
• Wittgenstein and Heidegger. The last philosophers. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017. ISBN 978-3-498-02528-1 .
• Leibniz or The Best of Possible Worlds. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-644-00003-2 .
• Flashes of inspiration. Another story of philosophy. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013. ISBN 978-3-498-02523-6 .
• Enlightenment. The European project. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2012. ISBN 978-3-498-02518-2 .
• The Humboldt brothers. A biography. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2009. ISBN 978-3-498-02511-3 .
• What could Kant do that I cannot? Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006. ISBN 3-499-62162-2 .
• What smart people laugh at. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006. ISBN 978-3-499-62117-8 .
• Martin Heidegger. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005. ISBN 3-499-50665-3 .
• Kant's world. A biography. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2003. ISBN 3-498-02491-4 .
• The little things of the great philosophers. Rogner and Bernhard, Hamburg 2001. ISBN 3-8077-0214-8 .
• Fake. Life in artificial worlds. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999. ISBN 3-499-55632-4 .
• Orientation linguistics. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998. ISBN 3-499-55602-2 .
• The happiness of the indifferent. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997. ISBN 3-499-55586-7 .
• Karl Popper. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994. ISBN 3-499-50468-5 .
• The Vienna Circle. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992. ISBN 3-499-50508-8 .
• The language game of the philosophers. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989. ISBN 3-499-55500-X .
• Linguistic analysis and literary practice. Narr, Tübingen 1986. ISBN 3-87808-276-2 .
• The script and the tradition. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1985. ISBN 3-7705-2304-0 .
• Methods of Linguistics and Literature Studies. Munich 1983. ISBN 3-7705-2099-8 .
• Doctor Ubu and me. Pataphysical encounters. Bibliotheca pataphysica vol. 2. CMZ-Verlag, Rheinbach-Merzbach 1983. ISBN 3-922584-17-9 .
• Cultural-historical language analyzes. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1979. ISBN 3-7609-0483-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Geier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Summaries of reviews of Geier's books at www.perlentaucher.de
• Geier in the directory of Germanists