The Boundaries of Agreement

by Manfred Frank

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.

114 pages, Paperback

Published October 5, 2005

About the author

Manfred Frank is a German philosopher, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen. His prolific work focuses on German idealism, romanticism, and the concepts of subjectivity and self-consciousness. His 950-page study of German romanticism, Unendliche Annäherung, 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."