[SydPhil] Public lecture by Professor Manfred Frank, March 12, please register now!

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So, what? Public lecture

Professor Manfred Frank

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You are invited to the second lecture in the 2014 series from UNSW Arts and Social Sciences.

Professor Manfred Frank
Professor of Philosophy, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen

Early Romantic Philosophy.
So, what is it?

Abstract: There is a long-standing prejudice that early romantic philosophy developed in the footsteps of Fichtean foundationalism, and that it was uncritical of the totalitarian seizure of power of subjectivity over Being or Difference allegedly characteristic of J.G. Fichte’s thought. Drawing on the recently developed research method of ‘Constellation Research’, this lecture shows that in fact Early Romanticism was skeptical about foundationalist pretensions, respectful of subjectivity without promoting it into a ‘highest point of philosophy’, ironical with regard to ultimate knowledge claims, ontologically realistic, and in general more modern than so far thought.

Biography: Manfred Frank is Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. His work focuses on early German idealism and romanticism, theories of self-consciousness, hermeneutics, theory of literature, aesthetics, and contemporary French philosophy. Among his many books are What Is Neostructuralism? (1984), the 950-page study of German romanticism Unendliche Annäherung (1997), The Subject and the Text: Essays on Literary Theory and Philosophy (1997), The Boundaries of Agreement (2005) and The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism (2004).

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Sydney Intellectual History Network at the University of Sydney sydney.edu.au/intellectual-history/<http://sydney.edu.au/intellectual-history/>

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Date: Wednesday 12 March, 2014
Cocktail reception: 6.00pm Lecture: 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Location: Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Kensington
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