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The Subject and the Text

The Subject and the Text
Essays on Literary Theory and Philosophy

Part of Literature, Culture, Theory

  • Date Published: February 1998
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9780521561211

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  • The work of the German philosopher Manfred Frank has profoundly affected the direction of the contemporary debate in many areas of philosophy and literary theory. This present collection, first published in 1998, brings together some of his most important essays, on subjects as diverse as Schleiermacher's hermeneutics, the status of the literary text, and the response to the work of Derrida and Lacan. Frank shows how the discussions of subjectivity in recent literary theory fail to take account of important developments in German Idealist and Romantic philosophy. The prominence accorded language in literary theory and analytic philosophy, 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.

    • A translation of influential essays by important German philosopher
    • Brings together important trends in continental philosophy and literary theory
    • Contains an introduction to Frank's work from Andrew Bowie and a bibliography of Frank's main writings in German and English
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    • Date Published: February 1998
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9780521561211
    • length: 250 pages
    • dimensions: 224 x 143 x 20 mm
    • weight: 0.4kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    1. The text and its style: Schleiermacher's theory of language
    2. What is a literary text and what does it mean to understand it?
    3. The 'true subject' and its double: Jacques Lacan's hermeneutics
    4. The entropy of language: reflections on the Searle-Derrida debate
    Bibliography
    Index.

  • Author

    Manfred Frank, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany

    Editor

    Andrew Bowie, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge

    Translator

    Helen Atkins

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