Dieter Henrich (philosopher)

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

Life

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

Henrich's habilitation took place in 1956 with the writing Self-Confidence and Morality . He then taught at various universities, as a full professor from 1960 in Berlin and from 1965 in Heidelberg. From 1968 to 1986 he was a permanent visiting professor in the USA ( Harvard University and Columbia University ) and was also visiting professor at the University of Tokyo , University of Michigan , Yale University . In 1981 he accepted an appointment to Munich , where he was professor of philosophy until his retirement in 1994. In 1984 he was elected as a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , where in 1987 he was appointed head of the commission for the publication of the writings of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi . After his retirement from LMU in 1994, he continued to head the Research Center for Classical German Philosophy. Since 1997 he has been honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Henrich has been an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993 and a member of the Comité directeur of the International Society for Philosophy since 1969. From 1970 he was President of the International Hegel Association .

Act

Dieter Henrich is an internationally known German philosopher. While his dissertation on Max Weber analyzes his philosophy of science and value theory, he then turned to historical research. Like hardly any other contemporary philosopher, he concentrated his work on German idealism . Of particular interest to him was the possibility of metaphysics as the main philosophical discipline.

Henrich's thematic focus is on Immanuel Kant , Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . He also researches the philosophical approaches of Friedrich Hölderlin . At the same time, with his own arguments, he followed up the philosophy of that time in investigations into self-confidence , ethics and the theory of art . His investigations into thoughts of an absolute and the foundation of metaphysics in modern times also attracted attention. In 2004 Henrich received the international Kant Prize of the Zeit Foundation for “his outstanding interpretations of Immanuel Kant's philosophy” .

Henrich also speaks regularly on current political issues. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , for example, he dealt with the problem of a German identity with the essays Eine Republik Deutschland (1990) and After the End of Division (1993) and promoted unity.

In the year of Kant 2004 Henrich published his main historical work, Grundführung aus dem Ich , in which he reconstructed the genesis of post-Kantian positions. In his collection of essays, The Philosophy in the Process of Culture (2006), Henrich provided historical and systematic positional determinations of philosophy. In Thinking and Self-Being (2007) he took up the question of the relationship between people and themselves, which is articulated as self-confidence or self-assurance. In Works in Becoming (2011), Henrich examined the development of philosophical conceptions.

Memberships and offices

honors and awards

Fonts

  • The unity of the scientific teaching of Max Weber , Tübingen 1952.
  • Self-confidence 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.
  • Identity and Objectivity, Heidelberg 1976.
  • Escape lines. Philosophical essays . Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  • Self-relations. Thoughts and interpretations on the fundamentals 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 .
  • Constellations. Problems and debates at the origin of idealistic philosophy (1789–1795) . Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1991. ISBN 3-608-91360-2 .
  • The reason in consciousness. Investigations into Hölderlin's thinking (1794/95) . Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1992. ISBN 3-608-91613-X (2nd expanded edition 2004).
  • Conscious life. Studies on the relationship between subjectivity and metaphysics , Reclam, Stuttgart 1999.
  • Try about art and life. Subjectivity - Understanding 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 from the ego. Investigations into the prehistory of idealism. Tübingen - Jena 1790–1794 . Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, ​​2004. ISBN 3-518-58384-0 .
  • Philosophy in the process of culture . Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, ​​2006. ISBN 978-3-518-29412-3 .
  • Thinking and being oneself. Lectures on subjectivity . Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, ​​2007. ISBN 978-3-518-58481-1 .
  • Works in progress. About the genesis of philosophical insights , CH Beck: Munich, 2011. ISBN 978-3-406-60655-7 .
  • To be or nothing. Explorations around Samuel Beckett and Hölderlin , CH Beck: Munich, 2016. ISBN 978-3-406-66324-6 .
  • This I that says a lot. Thinking about Fichtes Insight , Klostermann: Frankfurt, 2019. ISBN 978-3-465-04317-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member of the BAdW (with photo)
  2. ^ Head of the Jacobi Commission
  3. ↑ Jörg Noller: Review of: Dieter Henrich: Thinking and being yourself. In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 117/2 (2010), pp. 416–418.
personal data
SURNAME Henrich, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg