Manfred Frank

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Manfred Frank (born March 22, 1945) is a German philosopher, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Tubingen. His prolific work focuses on German idealism, romanticism, and the concepts of subjectivity and self-consciousness. His 950-page study of German romanticism, Unendliche Annährung, 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.

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

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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