Henrik Jaeger

Henrik Jäger (born September 13, 1960 in Hameln ) is a German sinologist and philosopher .

Life

Henrik Jäger studied Sinology, Japanese Studies and Philosophy at the Universities of Freiburg, Würzburg and Munich and received his doctorate in 1997 under Wolfgang Bauer at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on a Zen Buddhist commentary on Daodejing from the Ming dynasty . Since then he has devoted himself to work on the so-called reading book project , in which he pursues the concern of opening up the classical works of Chinese philosophy in a literarily valid form. So far, the Zhuangzi reader “With the right shoes you forget your feet” and the Menzius reader “Den Menschenrechte” published by Egon Ammannpublished. The aim of this fiction reader project is to make the richness and topicality of Chinese thought for spiritual, political, economic and ecological developments accessible to a broad readership.

Jäger held a visiting professorship in Taiwan from 1999 to 2000 and is now employed at the University of Hildesheim. Since 2003, Jäger has worked in Sinology at the University of Trier and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Henrik Jäger has been working as a freelance writer, lecturer and consultant since 2004. He works as a sinological consultant while working on Bettina Wilhelm's film "Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching" on the life and work of Richard Wilhelm . Henrik Jäger has been working on the project "The Influence of Confucian Thought on the Work of Christian Wolff " since 2009 .

Works

• Editor and translator: Justice for the people: a Menzius reading book , Zurich, Ammann, 2010, ISBN 978-3-250-10528-2
• Editor and translator: With the right shoes you forget your feet: a Zhuangzi reading book , Zurich, Ammann, 2009, ISBN 978-3-250-10529-9
• Dissertation: The Daodejing commentary by the Chan master Hanshan Deqing (1546-1623) , Marburg, Tectum-Verl. 1999,

Reviews

• The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes about Jaeger's Den Menschenrechte : Jäger's reading book presents the quotations selected and translated by him in a network of relationships, woven from contemporary comments, the original texts in Chinese characters, the explanation of the possible levels of meaning of individual central characters, parallel texts of tradition and its own interpretation. In doing so, he does not merely place the texts in their historical context.

Web links

• Literature by and about Henrik Jaeger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Scientist's HP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martina Bölck: Richard Wilhelm und das I Ging im Film ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Goethe-Institut (China), November 2011, accessed on January 4, 2014
2. ^ FAZ review by Mark Siemons