Introduction

Roberto Formisano, Garth W. Green

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 thatterm. Still today, a perduring hermeneutic approach to his philosophy remainsitself, in a certain and salient sense, extraneous or external. Such an approachcharacterized Jean Lacroix’s (positive, or affirmative) proclamation, in 1966, ofHenry as “le nouveau Bergson.” It continues today when Dominique Janicaudinterprets Henry (negatively, or critically) in light of a “tournant théologique,” asa principal proponent of the “theologism of phenomenology.”