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Johannes Heinrichs (borne 1942 in Duisburg/Rhine) is a German philosopher and semiotician. Heinrichs studied philosophy, theology, social sciences, and linguistics in Munich, Bochum, Bonn, Frankfurt/Main, Paris. His doctoral dissertation was the Hegel-Study “Die Logik der ‘Phänomenologie des Geistes’“(Bonn 1972) (The Logic of the Phenomenology of Spirit). His habilitation in philosophy was accomplished by the same book, and his first publications in social philosophy (Frankfurt 1975). Since 1975, he taught as Jesuit junior professor philosophy at the Jesuit University of Frankfurt (St. Georgen). After leaving the Jesuit order for philosophical reasons, he taught occasionally at the universities of Bonn and Berlin (Humboldt University, where he succeeded to the former GDR-dissident Rudolf Bahro), but earned his life mainly as a writer, as the German Concordat (originally between Hitler and the Vatican) hindered his university career. He published more than 30 philosophical books and some 170 articles in journals and dictionaries. Recent summary of these books: “Integrale Philosophie”, Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2014. He developed a “reflection theory” which is a modern development of German idealism. By his systematic approach he opposes to the mere historicism of mainstream philosophers, also by the spiritual character of his philosophy. Instead of the so called language analysis, he has published 5 volumes on the general characteristics of human language, reconstructing language on the basis of sense-analysis. There is a certain parallel to the famous approach of Noam Chomsky, whose basis is nevertheless a materialistic (genetic) one, whereas Heinrichs` approach is a structuralism on the basis of the structures of self-reflection. Corresponding member of several philosophical societies, he co-operates with the Theosophical Society in Germany (review “Theosophie heute”).

His book “Revolution of Democracy” Berlin, Maas Verlag 2003, 2nd ed. Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2014, is discussed by a growing public in Germany and foreign speaking countries. It has been published in Russian and in Bulgarian language. In this book as well as in a book on Europa, and a series of corresponding articles, he declares a 4-level-parliamentarism (distinction of economics, politics in the proper sense, culture and ultimate value-system) as indispensable for the evolution of democracy, i.e. for a serious value-realisation in society. Here is the important, even decisive link between political and spiritual thinking.

In 2015 he published a philosophical analysis of the enneagram, together with the well-known coach Korai P. Stemmann.

Prof. Dr. Johannes Heinrichs (b. 1942 in Duisburg/Rhine) studied philosophy, theology, social sciences, and linguistics in Munich, Bochum, Bonn, Frankfurt/Main, Paris. His doctoral dissertation was the Hegel-Study “Die Logik der ‘Phänomenologie des Geistes’“(Bonn 1972) (The Logic of the Phenomenology of Spirit). His habilitation in philosophy was accomplished by the same book, and his first publications in social philosophy (Frankfurt 1975). Since 1975, he taught as Jesuit junior professor philosophy at the Jesuit University of Frankfurt (St. Georgen). After leaving the Jesuit order for philosophical reasons, he taught occasionally at the universities of Bonn and Berlin (Humboldt University, where he succeeded to the former GDR-dissident Rudolf Bahro), but earned his life mainly as a writer, as the German Concordat (originally between Hitler and the Vatican) hindered his university career. He published more than 30 philosophical books and some 170 articles in journals and dictionaries. Recent summary of these books: “Integrale Philosophie”, Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2014. He developed a “reflection theory” which is a modern development of German idealism. By his systematic approach he opposes to the mere historicism of mainstream philosophers, also by the spiritual character of his philosophy. Instead of the so called language analysis, he has published 5 volumes on the general characteristics of human language, reconstructing language on the basis of sense-analysis. There is a certain parallel to the famous approach of Noam Chomsky, whose basis is nevertheless a materialistic (genetic) one, whereas Heinrichs` approach is a structuralism on the basis of the structures of self-reflection.

Corresponding member of several philosophical societies, he co-operates with the Theosophical Society in Germany (review “Theosophie heute”). He studied also a great deal of the Alice-Bailey-books and is open to the message of Benjamin Crème.

His book “Revolution of Democracy” Berlin, Maas Verlag 2003, 2nd ed. Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2014, is discussed by a growing public in Germany and foreign speaking countries. It has been published in Russian and in Bulgarian language. In this book as well as in a book on Europa, and a series of corresponding articles, he declares a 4-level-parliamentarism (distinction of economics, politics in the proper sense, culture and ultimate value-system) as indispensable for the evolution of democracy, i.e. for a serious value-realisation in society. Here is the important, even decisive link between political and spiritual thinking.

His summarizing book “Integral Philosophy” as well as a short version of this is going to be published in 2016.

A complete list of his publications, including a folder with a couple of articles in English, can be found on his website www.johannesheinrichs.de.