Dieter Henrich

Dieter Henrich ( born January 5, 1927 in Marburg ) is a German philosopher.

Life

Dieter Henrich made ​​1946 his diploma at the grammar school Philippinum in Marburg. From 1946 to 1950 he studied philosophy, history and sociology. in Marburg, Frankfurt and Heidelberg. In 1950 he was phil Hans -Georg Gadamer at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg with the work on the unity of science doctrine of Max Weber to Dr.. doctorate.

Henrichs habilitation followed in 1956 with the writing self-confidence and morality. He then taught at various universities, as a full professor in 1960 in Berlin and from 1965 in Heidelberg. He was from 1968 to 1986 permanent visiting professor in the United States (Harvard and Columbia) and was also a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, University of Michigan, Yale. In 1981 he accepted a call to Munich, where he was Professor of Philosophy until his retirement in 1994. After his retirement from the LMU in 1994, he headed the Research Centre continues Classical German Philosophy. Since 1997 he is honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Henrich, among other honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, since 1969 a member of the Comité directeur of the International Society for Philosophy. From 1970 he was President of the International Hegel Association.

Work

Dieter Henrich is an internationally known German philosopher. During his dissertation on Max Weber still has a sociological character, he turned then to the historical research. Like almost any other philosopher, he focused his work on this German idealism. Was of particular interest to him the possibility of metaphysics as a major philosophical discipline.

Henrichs thematic focus is on Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. He also explores the philosophical approaches of Friedrich Hölderlin. At the same time he joined with his own arguments in the philosophy of time in studies of self-confidence, ethics and the theory of art. Attention also found his studies to thoughts of an Absolute and the creation of a metaphysics of modernity. For " his outstanding interpretations of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant's" Henrich was awarded the 2004 International Prize by the time Kant Foundation.

Henrich also manifests itself regularly on current political issues. So he sat down after the fall of the wall with the essays A Republic of Germany (1990 ) and After the end of the division (1993 ) to the problem of a German identity apart touting the unit.

In Kant - 2004 Henrich published his historical magnum opus Foundation on the Self, in which he reconstructed the genesis of Kantian positions. In his collection of essays The philosophy in the process of culture (2006) Henrich provided historical and systematic position provisions of philosophy. In thinking and selfhood ( 2007), he took up the question of the relationship of man to himself, the articulate themselves as self-confidence or self-assurance. In works in the making (2011) Henrich examined the emergence of philosophical conceptions.

Memberships and offices

Honors and Awards

Writings

  • The unity of science doctrine of Max Weber, Tübingen 1952
  • Self-consciousness and morality. Habilitation thesis ( typewriter script ), Heidelberg 1956
  • The ontological proof of God, Tübingen 1960
  • Fichte's original insight, Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1967
  • Hegel in context. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1971.
  • Lines of flight. Philosophical Essays. Frankfurt 1982
  • Self-relations. Thoughts and interpretations to the basics of classical German philosophy. Stuttgart 1982
  • The course of remembrance. Observations on Hölderlin's poem. Stuttgart 1986
  • Ethics for nuclear peace. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1990, ISBN 3-518-58017-5.
  • The reason in consciousness. Studies on Hölderlin's thinking (1794 /95). Stuttgart: . Klett- Cotta, 1992, ISBN 3-608-91613- X (. 2 extended edition 2004)
  • Conscious life. Investigations of the relationship between subjectivity and metaphysics, Reclam, Stuttgart, 1999
  • Essay on art and life. Subjectivity - understanding of the world - art. Munich: Carl Hanser, 2001 ISBN 3-446-19857-1.
  • Fixed points. Treatises and essays on the theory of art. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2003 ISBN 3-518-29210-2.
  • Foundation on the Self. Studies on the history of idealism. Tübingen - Jena from 1790 to 1794. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2004 ISBN 3-518-58384-0.
  • The philosophy in the process of culture. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2006 ISBN 978-3-518-29412-3.
  • Thinking and selfhood. Lectures on subjectivity. Frankfurt: . Suhrkamp, 2007 ISBN 978-3-518-58481-1 ( review )
  • Works in the making. About the genesis of philosophical insights, CH Beck: Munich, 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-60655-7.
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