The Michel Henry reader / edited by Scott Davidson and Frédéric Seyler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seyler, Frédéric, editor.

Davidson, Scott, 1970- editor.

Series:

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Henry, Michel, 1922-2002.

Henry, Michel.

Life.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English and French.

Summary:

From beginning to end, the philosophy of Michel Henry offers an original and profound reflection on life.Henry challenges the conventional understanding of life as a set of natural processes and a general classification of beings.

Contents:

Part 1. Phenomenology

The four principles of phenomenology

The phenomenology of birth

Incarnation

Those within me: a phenomenology

Part 2. Subjectivity

The critique of the subject

Philosophy and subjectivity

Descartes's Cogito and the idea of an ideal phenomenology

Ricoeur and Freud: between psychoanalysis and phenomenology

Part 3. Politics, art, and language

The concept of being as production

Difficult democracy

Kandinsky and the meaning of the work of art

Material phenomenology and language (or, pathos and language)

Part 4. Ethics and religion

Ethics and religion within a phenomenology of life

Theodicy from the perspective of a radical phenomenology

The experience of the other: phenomenology and theology

Speech and religion: the word of God.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8101-4069-1

OCLC:

1111698421