Region Western philosophy Name Dieter Henrich | Role Philosopher | |
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Notable ideas das wissende Selbstverhaltnis(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) · Kant's fallacy (attempting to ground the self in pure reflection; positing the moment of self-reflection as the original source of self-knowledge) Areas of interest History of philosophy, Aesthetics, Subjectivity Influenced Panagiotis Kondylis, Manfred Frank People also search for Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Wolfgang Iser, Richard L. Velkley Books Between Kant and Hegel, The unity of reason, Aesthetic Judgment and the M, The course of remembr, Selbstverhaltnisse | ||
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.
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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.