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April 10-13, 2000
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
Manfred Frank
(Universität Tübingen)
Lecture and Seminar-series on:
"Infinite Approximation": Philosophical Origins
of Early German Romanticism
Can art satisfy the infinite yearning of philosophy?
[yes?]
Was romanticism beholding to philosophical idealism?
[no?]
Does skepticism concerning self lead to death of the subject?
[no?]
What do critical theorists (Habermas et al.), post-modernists (Derrida et
al.), and scientific naturalists (theorists of mind) all get wrong?
[subjectivity?]
For answers to these questions, Manfred Frank will introduce us in a series
of seminars to a neglected philosophical period — the formative years
(1792-1796) of German romanticism. His protaganists include Kant, Jacobi,
Reinhold, Fichte, Friedrich Schlegel, and especially Friedrich von
Hardenberg (Novalis).
Tentative Schedule:
Monday, April 10
7:30 pm
Gambrell 151 |
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A Public Lecture on Literary Style in Philosophy:
"Wittgenstein's Journey into Literature" |
Monday, April 10
4:00 to 6:00 pm
Preston College |
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Philosophical Origins of Early German Romanticism I:
A Survey of Context and Constellations in Early Romantic Philosophy
after Reinhold |
Tuesday, April 11
3:00 to 6:00 pm
Gambrell 428 |
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Philosophical Origins of Early German Romanticism II:
Skepticism Concerning Foundational Philosophy |
Wednesday, April 12
3:00 to 6:00 pm
Gambrell 428 |
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Philosophical Origins of Early German Romanticism III:
Kant's and Jacobi's Thesis on Being: Its Realistic Repercussions |
Thursday, April 13
3:00 to 6:00 pm
Gambrell 428 |
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Philosophical Origins of Early German Romanticism IV:
Novalis's Solution to the Problem of Subjectivity in His Fichte-Studies
of 1795-96 |
Invitation: Faculty and graduate
students from other departments and institutions are welcome to join us for
some or all of the discussions. We will try to arrange free accommodations
for graduate students. Contact Alfred Nordmann, Philosophy Department,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, Tel. 803-777-3739, Fax
803-777-9178, ANordmann@sc.edu.
Sponsors: This lecture and seminar series
has been organized by USC's Philosophy Department, sponsored by
USC's College of Liberal Arts, the
Philosophy Department, the Department
of Germanic, Slavic, and Oriental Languages and Literatures, the Comparative Literature Program, the
Department of Religious Studies,
the Department of English, and
the Department of French and
Classics — with generous support from the Max Kade Foundation, New
York, and from the South Carolina
Humanities Council, a state program of the National Endowment for
the Humanities.
Some of Frank's Publications:
Single-authored monographs (selection)
- Der unendliche Mangel an Sein: Schellings Hegelkritik und die
Anfänge der Marxschen Dialektik. (1975; Japanese translation
forthcoming)
- Das Sagbare und das Unsagbare. Studien zur neuesten
französischen Hermeneutik und Texttheorie. (1980, expanded second
edition 1989, partial translation into Croatian 1994, partial translation
into English under the title The Subject and the Text: Essays on
Literary Theory and Philosophy 1997)
- Was ist Neostrukturalismus? (1983, translated into French,
Czech, Rumanian, into English under the title What is
Neostructuralism 1989)
- Die Grenzen der Verständigung: Ein Geistergespräch
zwischen Lyotard und Habermas. (1988, translated or translations
forthcoming in English, Arab, Japanese, Rumanian, Spanish, Czech, and
Norwegian)
- Ein Einführung in die frühromantische Ästhetik.
(1989, French and English translations forthcoming)
- Stil in der Philosophie. (1992, translated or translations
forthcoming in Serbian, Italian, Slovak, and English in two 1999 issues of
Metaphilosophy)
- "Unendliche Annäherung: Die Anfänge der philosophischen
Frühromantik. (1997, expanded second edition 1998, English
translation of part III forthcoming)
Edited Works (selection)
- Das kalte Herz und andere Texte der Romantik. (1978, expanded
fifth edition 1996)
- Analytische Theorien des Selbstbewußtseins. (1994)
- Critical edition with extensive commentary of Immanuel Kant's
Critique of Judgement, his works on aesthetics and philosophy of
nature. (with Véronique Zanetti, 1996)
Articles and Chapter (selection of articles in English)
- "The Text and its Styles: Schleiermacher's Hermeneutic Theory of
Language," boundary 2, 11:3 (Spring 1983), pp. 11-28.
- "The Infinte Text," Glyph (The Johns Hopkins Textual Studies),
7 (1980), pp. 70-101.
- "Schelling's Critique of Hegel and the Beginnings of Marxian
Dialectics," Idealistic Studies, 19:3 (September 1989), pp.
251-268.
- "Two Centuries of Philosophical Critique of Reason and its 'Postmodern'
Radicalization," in Freundlieb and Hudson (eds.) Reason and Its
Other. (Providence: Berg, 1993), pp. 67-85.
- "Identity and Subjectivity," in Critchley and Dews (eds.),
Deconstructive Subjectivities. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996), pp.
127-148.
- "Towards a Philosophy of Style," Common Knowledge, 1:1 (Spring
1992), pp. 54-77.
- "Nationality and Democracy: Defining Terms in Germany," Common
Knowledge, 2:3 (Winter 1993), pp. 65-78.
- "Philosophical Foundations of Early Romanticism," in Ameriks and
Sturma (eds.) The Modern Subject: Conceptions of the Self in Classical
German Philosophy. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995), pp. 65-85.
- "Is Subjectivity a Non-Thing, an Absurdity [Unding]?" in
Ameriks and Sturma (eds.)The Modern Subject: Conceptions of the Self in
Classical German Philosophy. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995), pp.
177-197.
- "The Subject v. Language: Mental Familiarity and Epistemic
Self-Ascription," Common Knowledge, 4:2 (Fall 1995), pp.
30-50.
- "Subjectivity and Individuality: Survey of a Problem," in Klemm and
Zöller (eds.) Figuring the Self (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994),
pp. 3-30.
For updates to this information, see the Philosophy Department's
colloquium calendar.
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