Dieter Henrich

Dieter Henrich (born 5 January 1927) is a German philosopher. A contemporary thinker in the tradition of German idealism, Henrich is considered "one of the most respected and frequently cited philosophers in Germany today," whose "extensive and highly innovative studies of German Idealism and his systematic analyses of subjectivity have significantly impacted on advanced German philosophical and theological debates."[2]

Dieter Henrich
Born (1927-01-05) 5 January 1927
Alma materUniversity of Marburg
University of Frankfurt
University of Heidelberg
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolRevival of German idealism[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Munich
University of Berlin
University of Heidelberg
Harvard University
Columbia University
ThesisDie Einheit der Wissenschaftslehre Max Webers (The Unity of Max Weber's Epistemology) (1950)
Doctoral advisorHans-Georg Gadamer
Main interests
Philosophy of subjectivity, history of philosophy, aesthetics
Notable ideas
The epistemic self-relation · Fichte's original insight · Kantian fallacy
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Education and career

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.

Philosophical work

Henrich introduced the idea that I-thoughts (what he also called "the epistemic self-relation" [Das wissende Selbstverhältnis]) imply a belief in the existence of a world of objects.[3]

He introduced the term "Fichte's original insight"[4] to describe Johann Gottlieb Fichte's idea that the self must already have some prior acquaintance with itself, independent of the act of self-reflection. Henrich noted that Fichte saw the transcendental subject as a primordial selfhood[5] and identified its activity as prior to self-reflection. He also introduced the term "Kantian fallacy" to describe Immanuel Kant's attempt to ground the self in pure self-reflection, positing the moment of self-reflection as the original source of self-consciousness[6] (see also pre-reflective self-consciousness).

Honors

Major works

  • Die Situation der Historie und Max Webers Methodenlehre aus: Archiv für Philosophie 1949 3; 400–409.
  • Die Einheit der Wissenschaftslehre 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. Freundlieb, Dieter (2003). Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy: The Return to Subjectivity. Routledge. p. 206. ISBN 978-0754613442.
  3. Freundlieb, Dieter (2003). Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy: The Return to Subjectivity. Routledge. p. 61. ISBN 978-0754613442.
  4. 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).
  5. Judith Rebecca Norman, The Idea of Intellectual Intuition from Kant to Hegel, University of Wisconsin–Madison, p. 95.
  6. Michael Ferber (ed.), A Companion to European Romanticism, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, p. 108.
  7. Henrich, Dieter (2009). Endlichkeit und Sammlung des Lebens. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. p. 149. ISBN 978-3-16-149948-7.

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