Dieter Henrich

Dieter Henrich
Born	5 January 1927 Marburg, Germany
Alma mater	University of Marburg University of Frankfurt University of Heidelberg Harvard University Columbia University
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Revival of German Idealism[1]
Institutions	University of Munich Humboldt University of Berlin University of Heidelberg
Main interests	Philosophy of subjectivity, history of philosophy, aesthetics
Notable ideas	das wissende Selbstverhältnis (the epistemic self-relation) · the transcendental subject as a primordial selfhood · Fichte's original insight (the self must already have some prior acquaintance with itself, independent of the act of reflection; identifying activity as prior to reflection)[2] · Kant's fallacy (attempting to ground the self in pure reflection; positing the moment of self-reflection as the original source of self-knowledge)
Influences Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Gadamer
Influenced Manfred Frank, Lorenz Bruno Puntel, Panagiotis Kondylis

Dieter Henrich (born 5 January 1927) is a German philosopher. A contemporary thinker in the tradition of German Idealism, Henrich is particularly known for the influence of Kant, Hegel and Fichte in his work.

Life and work

Henrich studied philosophy between 1946 and 1950 at Marburg, Frankfurt and Heidelberg. He completed his PhD dissertation at Heidelberg in 1950 under the supervision of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The title of his thesis was Die Einheit der Wissenschaftslehre Max Webers (The Unity of Max Weber's Epistemology). A professor at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg, he has also been a visiting professor to universities in the United States, such as Harvard and Columbia.

Honors

In 2008, Henrich was awarded the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize by the University of Tübingen.^[3]

Major works

• Die Situation der Historie und Max Webers Methodenlehre aus: Archiv für Philosophie 1949 3; 400–409.
• Die Einheit der Wissenschafstlehre Max Webers. Tübingen (J.C.B. Mohr). 1952.
• Hegel im Kontext. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1971.
• Der Grund im Bewußtsein. Untersuchungen zu Hölderlins Denken (1794/95). Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1992. ISBN 3-608-91613-X (2. erw. Aufl. 2004)
• The Unity of Reason: Essays on Kant's Philosophy, Harvard University Press, 1994. ISBN 0674929055
• Versuch über Kunst und Leben. Subjektivität - Weltverstehen - Kunst. München: Carl Hanser, 2001. ISBN 3-446-19857-1
• Fixpunkte. Abhandlungen und Essays zur Theorie der Kunst. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2003. ISBN 3-518-29210-2
• (with David S. Pacini) Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism. Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN 0674007735
• Grundlegung aus dem Ich. Untersuchungen zur Vorgeschichte des Idealismus. Tübingen - Jena 1790-1794. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2004. ISBN 3-518-58384-0
• Die Philosophie im Prozeß der Kultur. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2006. ISBN 978-3-518-29412-3
• Endlichkeit und Sammlung des Lebens, Mohr Siebeck, 2009 ISBN 978-3-16-149948-7

Notes

1. Redding, Paul: "German Philosophy" (Monash University).
2. Proposed in Dieter Henrich. "Fichte's Original Insight", Contemporary German Philosophy 1 (1982), 15–52 (translation of Henrich, Dieter (1966), "Fichtes ursprüngliche Einsicht", in: Subjektivität und Metaphysik. Festschrift für Wolfgang Cramer edited by D. Henrich und H. Wagner, Frankfurt/M., pp. 188–232).
3. Henrich, Dieter (2009). Endlichkeit und Sammlung des Lebens. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. p. 149. ISBN 978-3-16-149948-7.

References

• Dieter Freundlieb, Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy: The Return to Subjectivity, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003, p. 137.
• Jerrold Seigel, The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 366.
• Paul Redding, Hegel's Hermeneutics, Cornell University Press, 1996, p. 54.
• Brad Prager, Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism, Camden House, 2007, p. 8.

External links

• Website of Henrich with bibliography (German)