MICHEL HENRY: INCARNATION, BARBARISM AND BELIEF, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF MICHEL HENRY

Author: O'Sullivan, Michael
Title: MICHEL HENRY: INCARNATION, BARBARISM AND BELIEF, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF MICHEL HENRY
Publication: Oxford, England: Peter Lang, 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: Softcover. Trade paperback. 8.8 in. x 5.8 in., pp. 214. Light rubbing to covers; small creases to bottom corners of covers. Unmarked interior. Very Good.

Michel Henry (1922 – 2002) was a French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist. He wrote five novels and numerous philosophical works and lectured at universities in France, Belgium, the United States, and Japan. According to Henry, life can never be seen from the exterior, as it never appears in the exteriority of the world. Life feels itself and experiences itself in its invisible interiority and in its radical imminance. In the world we never see life itself, but only living beings or living organisms; we cannot see life in them. In the same way, it is impossible to see another person's soul with the eyes or to perceive it at the end of a scalpel. Henry's philosophy goes on to aver that we undergo life in a radical passivity, we are reduced to bear it permanently as what we have not wanted, and that this radical passivity of life is the foundation and the cause of suffering. (from Wikipedia).

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Subject: Philosophy