Helmut Heit, Ph.D.

Director of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Germany

Bio

Prof. Dr. HELMUT HEIT is director of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, one of the largest federal institutions for culture and research in Germany. He studied philosophy and political sciences in Hannover, Melbourne and Berlin, and received his Dr. phil. 2003 in Hannover for a study on the emergence of Western philosophy in ancient Greece. Before coming to Weimar, he was associate professor for German and European Philosophy and vice-director of the Academy of European Culture at Tongji University in Shanghai, and he still holds a visiting affiliation there. He previously worked at Technical University Berlin (2007-15) Humboldt University Berlin (2006-07), University of California at San Diego (2005-06) and Leibniz University Hannover (2003-06). He also held a teaching assignment at the Munich Business School (2011-15), was invited scholar in Pelotas, Brazil (2014-15), at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar (2014), and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2012-13).

He works in the fields of philosophy of culture, philosophy of science, critical theory, social philosophy and European identity and values. In historical terms, his research covers 19th and 20th century German philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy. A main focus of his recent study is Nietzsche’s cultural philosophy of science.

Helmut Heit is co-editor of the prestigious international journal Nietzsche-Studien and of the book-series Monographien und Texte der Nietzscheforschung (de Gruyter), member of the executive board of the German Nietzsche-Gesellschaft, and he was founding director of the Berliner Nietzsche-Colloquium. He is member of the advisory board of Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie, liaison professor (Vertrauensdozent) of Hans Böckler Foundation, and fellow of the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science Hannover.