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...
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...
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....
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...
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a non-theological and nonrationalistic approach to Christianity, Michel Henry’s published work—along with what remains unpublished and all that it harbours—imposes itself as a...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 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...
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...
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...
The COVID-19 pandemic led educators to quickly pivot to continue teaching. Negative effects include exacerbated academic achievement gaps between SES groups, less access to health services, aggravated digital divides, widened...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
The following is a review of Peter Gøtzsche's "Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare," which focuses on the corruption that exists in the pharmaceutical industries and in the healthcare...
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...
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...
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...
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...