Jens Heise

Jens Heise (* 1949 ) is a German historian of philosophy and Japanologist .

Career

Heise received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg with a work on dream discourses published in 1989 . In Hamburg he was a lecturer in philosophy and Japanese studies, then a private lecturer at the Philosophical Seminar of the Humboldt University in Berlin . Today he works at the Philosophical Seminar of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Heise dealt intensively with the philosophy of Johann Gottfried Herder , which he examined particularly in connection with his contributions to the philosophy of language and history. In an overall presentation of philosophy in Japan presented jointly with Peter Pörtner , geographical, political and social factors are taken into account and the influences of Chinese Confucianism , Buddhism and European philosophy on thinking in Japan are presented. Heise also dealt with the self-interpretation of the culture of Japan and published an anthology devoted to this topic.

Works

Dream Discourses: The Dreams of Philosophy and the Psychology of Dreams. With a foreword by Herbert Schnädelbach . Frankfurt am Main 1989 ( ISBN 3-596-26585-1 )
with Peter Pörtner : The Philosophy of Japan. From the beginnings to the present (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 431). Kröner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-520-43101-7 .
Johann Gottfried Herder as an introduction. Hamburg 1998, 2nd edition 2006 ( ISBN 3-88506-974-1 )
Freud's ABC. Leipzig 2001 ( ISBN 3-379-01734-5 )
Presentational symbols: elements of a philosophy of cultures: Europe and Japan. Sankt Augustin 2003 ( ISBN 3-89665-240-0 )
Freud. Stuttgart 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-15-020332-3 )

Web links

Internet presence at the University of Heidelberg

Individual evidence

↑ Jens Heise: Dream Discourses: The Dreams of Philosophy and the Psychology of Dreams. With a foreword by Herbert Schnädelbach . Frankfurt am Main 1989 ( ISBN 3-596-26585-1 )
↑ Jens Heise: Johann Gottfried Herder for an introduction. Hamburg 1998, 2nd edition 2006 ( ISBN 3-88506-974-1 )
↑ Jens Heise and Peter Pörtner: The philosophy of Japan: from the beginnings to the present. Stuttgart 1995 ( ISBN 3-520-43101-7 )
↑ Jens Heise (ed.): The cool soul - self-interpretations of Japanese culture. Frankfurt am Main 1990 ( ISBN 3-596-10520-X )

personal data
SURNAME	Heise, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian of philosophy and Japanologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1949

[1] Jens Heise: Dream Discourses: The Dreams of Philosophy and the Psychology of Dreams. With a foreword by Herbert Schnädelbach . Frankfurt am Main 1989 ( ISBN 3-596-26585-1 )

[2] Jens Heise: Johann Gottfried Herder for an introduction. Hamburg 1998, 2nd edition 2006 ( ISBN 3-88506-974-1 )

[3] Jens Heise and Peter Pörtner: The philosophy of Japan: from the beginnings to the present. Stuttgart 1995 ( ISBN 3-520-43101-7 )

[4] Jens Heise (ed.): The cool soul - self-interpretations of Japanese culture. Frankfurt am Main 1990 ( ISBN 3-596-10520-X )