Dieter Henrich 1927 – 2022
Dieter Henrich (1927 – 2022) was a German philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with German Idealism and Continental Philosophy.
Dieter Henrich was a German philosopher, professor at the University of Munich, and the most important interpreter of post-Kantian German Idealism of the second half of the twentieth century. Between Kant and Hegel and Constellations: The Origin of German Idealism reconstructed in unprecedented detail the philosophical milieu of Jena and Tubingen in the 1790s, in which Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Hoelderlin, and Novalis worked out the consequences of Kant's critical philosophy. His own systematic work, in books like The Unity of Reason and Thinking and Self-Being, defended a non-reductive philosophical anthropology of conscious self-relation.
Key facts
- Nationality
- German
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- German Idealism, Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Dieter Henrich:
“Self-consciousness is the original problem of philosophy.”
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Attributed to Dieter Henrich:
“Kant did not solve the problem of the self; he gave us the means of stating it.”
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Attributed to Dieter Henrich:
“Idealism is not the denial of the world but the recognition of its dependence on thought.”
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Attributed to Dieter Henrich:
“We must understand a philosopher in his constellation, not in isolation.”
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Attributed to Dieter Henrich:
“Reason has a unity, even if no system of reason exhausts it.”
Frequently asked about Dieter Henrich
- When did Dieter Henrich live?
- Dieter Henrich was born in 1927 and died in 2022.
- Where was Dieter Henrich from?
- Dieter Henrich was a German philosopher of the Contemporary era.
- What philosophical movements is Dieter Henrich associated with?
- Dieter Henrich was associated with German Idealism and Continental Philosophy.
- What was Dieter Henrich known for?
- Dieter Henrich was a German philosopher, professor at the University of Munich, and the most important interpreter of post-Kantian German Idealism of the second half of the twentieth century.
- How many quotes are attributed to Dieter Henrich?
- There are 5 attributed quotations from Dieter Henrich in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.