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.