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On Thinking

Dieter Henrich

A Philosophical Autobiography - In conversation with Matthias Bormuth and Ulrich von Bülow

Dieter Henrich is known worldwide as an explorer of German idealism and philosopher of subjectivity. In conversations with Matthias Bormuth and Ulrich von Bülow, he sums up the stages of his path to and in philosophy, the course of his thinking and his encounters with teachers, contemporaries and companions. Among them are Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Heidegger, Theodor W. Adorno, Hilary Putnam, or even Sergiu Celibidache and Alexander Mitscherlich, who, after several sessions, certified that he did not need psychoanalysis.

As a child he was seriously ill for a long time. Today he sees this as one of the reasons why philosophy became his life's work. Dieter Henrich's philosophical autobiography is rich in concise memories of people and events in many spheres of life and regions of the world. He became one of the most influential philosophers of his time, with an open-ended, undogmatic philosophy, in which the freedom of the subject is understood as one made possible and not one initiated by self-power. In conversations conducted with great openness, we get to know an elegant, age-old metaphysician without system and without doctrines, who pursues human subjectivity in its happiness and hardships, its confusions and liberating moments, exploring the perspectives and conflicts into which a thinking is drawn, that has the courage to expose itself to even the last questions.

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Main content page count: 282 Pages