Heikki is from Finland and has studied philosophy, political science and social policy at University of Jyväskylä. While he was preparing his PhD, he also spent a semester in Münster (Germany) studying under Ludvig Siep and his assistant at that time Michael Quante. During his post-graduate studies he worked as an assistant in Jyväskylä, and later a semester as an assistant professor. He has also worked in several research projects by the Academy of Finland, and lately three years as a guest researcher at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt invited by professor Axel Honneth. Heikki has written mainly on recognition (Anerkennung), personhood and Hegel. He has also translated texts by Hegel into Finnish.

 

Selected publications

Monographs
Self-Consciousness and Intersubjectivity; A Study on Hegel's Encyclopedia Philosophy of Subjective Spirit (1830). Publications in Philosophy 67. Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2000

Edited Books
(with Arto Laitinen) Recognition and Social Ontology, forthcoming 2009.

(with Arto Laitinen) Dimensions of Personhood, Imprint Academic, 2007 (Published simultaneously as a resale book and as a special issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol 14, No. 5-6.)

(with Eerik Lagerspetz and Jussi Kotkavirta) On the Nature of Social and Institutional Reality. Jyväskylä: SoPhi Academic Press, 2001.

Book chapters
'Rehabilitating Hegel's Spirit - Recognitive Attitude as a Social-Ontological Concept'. In Heikki Ikäheimo & Arto Laitinen (eds.) 2009.

'Anerkennung als ontologisches und ethisches Begriff'. In Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Bush & Christopher Zurn (eds): Anerkennung. Akademie Verlag. (Forthcoming 2009. An English version of the collection in review by Columbia University Press.)

'Social Inclusion and the Personhood of People with Disabilities - A Recognition-theoretical Approach'. In Kristjana Kristiansen, Tom Shakespeare, and Simo Vehmas (eds.): At the Crossroads of Disability Studies and Philosophical Ethics, Routledge, 2008.

(with Arto Laitinen) 'Analysing Recognition - Identification, Acknowledgement and Recognitive Attitudes Between Persons'. In Bert van den Brink & David Owen (eds.): Recognition and Power. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Journal Articles
'A Vital Human Need - Recognition as Inclusion Into Personhood'. European Journal of Political Theory. (Forthcoming 2008, French translation forthcoming.)

'Recognizing Persons'. Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 14 (2007), No. 5-6, 224-47. (Appeared also in German, Italian translation forthcoming.)

Ikäheimo, Heikki, 'On the Role of Intersubjectivity in Hegel's Encyclopaedic Phenomenology and Psychology.' The Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Nos. 49/50 (2004), 73-95, 2004.

Ikäheimo, Heikki, 'On the Genus and Species of Recognition'. Inquiry, Vol. 45 (2002), No. 4, 447-462. (Portuguese translation planned.)

Current research

Heikki is currently a Macquarie University post-doctoral fellow. He is working on a synthetic conceptual framework that shows how the essential structures of personhood and the essential structures of the life-world of persons interconnect, and how both come about and are maintained by attitudes and relations of recognition. He is also writing a book on recognition in Hegel's theory of subjective spirit.

 

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