While Michel Henry is, in the words of Jean Leclercq, “l’un des plus grandspenseurs français du XXème siècle,” his philosophical contributions remained,throughout his career, anomalous or eccentric, in the etymological sense of...
Among thinkers and philosophers who have hazarded a non-theological and nonrationalistic approach to Christianity, Michel Henry’s published work—along with what remains unpublished and all that it harbours—imposes itself as a...
Michel Henry was, fundamentally, neither a thinker of the Krisis, nor a philosopherof “critical” thought. In his Barbarism, however, and his two volumes on Marx,Henry criticized forcefully the culture of his time and place....
In this paper, I would like to provide some of the elements necessary for acomprehension of Michel Henry’s position within the context of thephenomenological debate on inter-subjectivity. This apparently straightforwardtask is...
Michel Henry is known to be the contemporary thinker who has given the most privileged status and the deepest philosophical significance to affectivity. His whole work—from his interpretation of Biran’s ontology of subjectivity...
Si la phénoménologie de Michel Henry renvoie l’humain à son ancrage dans la vieauto-affective, comment aborder dans un tel cadre philosophique deux des traitspropres au vivant humain, à savoir le langage et la création...
Afin d’introduire notre propos, nous souhaiterons d’abord insister sur deux desavancées herméneutiques fondamentales qu’ont à nos yeux rendues possibles letravail mené depuis 2010 au Fonds Michel Henry de l’université de...
In Kant, remarkably, and for the first time perhaps in the history of philosophy, theproblem of the Ego receives an ontological signification. The critique of theparalogisms of rational psychology concerns, explicitly, this...
Ever since The Essence of Manifestation (1963), Michel Henry’s phenomenologydeveloped in a close dialogue with Husserl. This confrontation led Henry, in 1995,to formulate the project of a “non-intentional phenomenology,” which...
With uncommon humility, Michel Henry offered a new beginning to philosophy,a new and adequate point of departure that changes everything. Over the course ofa philosophical career spanning the second half of the twentieth...
Kierkegaard steadily maintains, against Lessing, that Jesus’s contemporaries had no advantage as regards faith merely because they had personal experience of him. It is a view proposed both by Johannes Climacus and...
In the following essay, I will examine the connection between phenomenality andfinitude, a problem developed by Michel Henry in The Essence of Manifestationin the context of a close dialogue with Heidegger and Kant on the theme...
The double expansion that Husserl’s phenomenology imposed on subjectiveexperience posed, among other difficulties, a new and particularly difficultproblem for Husserl; that of the trans-temporal identity of the...
The interpretation of Fichte plays a crucial role in the argumentation of Michel Henry’s seminal work, The Essence of Manifestation. 1 Indeed, it accompanies one of the most important passages of the entire volume, which...
Michel Henry’s “Destruction ontologique” does not interpret itself. In the following interpretive essay, I will attempt to articulate its basic structure, to address its principal engagements, and, on this basis, to interpret...
Many digital transformation initiatives of traditional firms fail. This research proposes a framework that identifies the need for corporations willing to transform, to look beyond technology. This research moves beyond the...
In acqumng a language the child is often faced with developing a grammar on the basis of input from a range of adults who speak different dialects or idiolects and whose grammars are not therefore identical. The fact that...
Carnal Hermeneutics is a collection of essays published in 2015 in the “Perspectives in Continental Philosophy” series by Fordham University Press. The contributors fall into two categories: established French philosophers...
Michel Henry’s critique of barbarism,1 understood as a flight from life, almostimmediately raises the question of how life’s tendency to negate itself is then to beovercome. Undoubtedly, such a question refers to ethics....
The reliability of critical aircraft components continues to shift towards onboard monitoring to optimize maintenance scheduling, economy efficiency and safety. Therefore, the present study investigates changes in dynamic...
My question is whether a phenomenology of community is possible. Phenomenologystarts from experience, in the Husserlian sense of Erlebnis. Now, can acommunity be experienced, and not empirically but rather...
The pandemic of 2019 created a multitude of challenges for teachers and students alike. The urgency with which education was forced to transition to a fully online delivery paradigm necessitated a triage and curate process to...
The 2020 worldwide pandemic signaled the COVID-19 crisis as a real threat and forced K-12 schools to move teaching and learning from face-to-face classrooms to online virtual classrooms. Educators searched for a silver lining...