The subject and the text

Bowie, Andrew

Frank, Manfred

Cambridge University Press

The Subject and the Text: Essays on Literary Theory and Philosophy (Literature, Culture, Theory)

The dominance in literary theory of perspectives derived from French poststructuralism is shown by the priority accorded to language. In this collection of essays, the German philosopher Manfred Frank challenges many of the fundamental assumptions of contemporary theory. The emphasis on language, he claims, ignores key arguments inherited from Romantic hermeneutics, those which demonstrate that interpretation is an individual activity never finally governed by rules. Andrew Bowie's introduction situates Frank's work in the context of contemporary debates in philosophy and literary theory.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The dominance in literary theory of perspectives derived from French poststructuralism is shown by the priority accorded to language. In this collection of essays, the German philosopher Manfred Frank challenges many of the fundamental assumptions of contemporary theory. The emphasis on language, he claims, ignores key arguments inherited from Romantic hermeneutics, those which demonstrate that interpretation is an individual activity never finally governed by rules. Andrew Bowie's introduction situates Frank's work in the context of contemporary debates in philosophy and literary theory.

Explores the philosophical contributions and contemporary relevance of early German Romanticism. Often portrayed as a movement of poets lost in swells of passion, early German Romanticism has been generally overlooked by scholars in favor of the great system-builders of the post-Kantian period, Schelling and Hegel. In the twelve lectures collected here, Manfred Frank redresses this oversight, offering an in-depth exploration of the philosophical contributions and contemporary relevance of early German Romanticism. Arguing that the early German Romantics initiated an original movement away from idealism, Frank brings the leading figures of the movement, Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), into concert with contemporary philosophical developments, and explores the role that Friedrich Hölderlin and other members of the Homburg Circle had upon the development of early German Romantic philosophy.

The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism (Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)

State Univ of New York Pr

Suggesting that a continuity exists between structuralism and poststructuralism, Frank provides detailed critical readings of Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Lyotard.

What Is Neostructuralism? (Theory & History of Literature) (English and German Edition)

Wilke, Sabine

Univ of Minnesota Pr

This essay takes a position in a nonexistent debate - a debate about dissent and consensus that ideally should have taken place between Jean-François Lyotard and Jürgen Habermas, but which has never materialized. This debate tests the boundary that separates the consensus-oriented exchanges of arguments from the adherence to a disseminal, non-unified plurality of utterances.

The Boundaries of Agreement

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The Davies Group, Publishers

Le Dieu à venir - Leçons V et VI

Actes-sud

Das individuelle Allgemeine: Textstrukturierung u. -interpretation nach Schleiermacher (German Edition)

Suhrkamp

Das Sagbare und das Unsagbare: Studien zur neuesten franz. Hermeneutik u. Texttheorie (Shurkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft ; 317) (German Edition)

Was ist Neostrukturalismus? (Edition Suhrkamp) (German Edition)

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