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Michel Henry Professor Jeffrey Hanson (Harvard University, USA)

Michel Henry By Professor Jeffrey Hanson (Harvard University, USA)

Summary

Michel Henry (1922-2002) was a French philosopher and novelist, whose work spanned decades and genres while remaining united by a singular vision. This title offers an examination of Michel Henry's important contributions to phenomenology, theology, politics and aesthetics, featuring contributions from an international list of scholars.

Michel Henry Summary

Michel Henry: The Affects of Thought by Professor Jeffrey Hanson (Harvard University, USA)

Michel Henry (1922-2002) was a French philosopher and novelist whose work spanned decades and genres while remaining united by a singular vision. In this specially commissioned collection, eight internationally recognized experts on Henrys thought investigate his profound acquaintance with the mystery of life-which he understood as the irreducible bedrock of all reality-in its self-manifestation under the rubrics of phenomenological experience, religion, and praxis. Each chapter investigates a different aspect of Henrys remarkable range of thought, focusing on his special relevance to debates on the relationship of phenomenology and theology as well as to contemporary radical discourses on embodiment and immanence, politics and theory. Henrys phenomenology of life is both deep and demanding, and its relevance to the topics under examination in this book cannot be denied. This collection represents the first sustained effort in coming to an understanding of just how far and wide that relevance reaches. It will not only spark a resurgence in Henry studies, but resonate within that sphere for many years to come.

Michel Henry Reviews

Emmanuel Levinas devoted his last Sorbonne seminar, in 1976, to The Essence of Manifestation. Those there present will remember the illuminating comments of the Master. And if the essays collected by Jeffrey Hanson and Michael Kelly happen to be even more illuminating to me at many places, it means probably that thirty-five years after Levinas, we are still beginning to read Henry - as he deserves to be read. -- Jean-Yves Lacoste, author of Experience and the Absolute and editor of The Encyclopedia of Christian Theology

About Professor Jeffrey Hanson (Harvard University, USA)

Michael Kelly is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, USA. His publications include Dispossession: On the Untenability of Michel Henry's Theory of Self-Awareness, as well as numerous essays on Husserl, the history of phenomenology, time-consciousness, and the philosophy of technology. He is the editor of Bergson and Phenomenology (Palgrave Press). Jeffrey Hanson is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, USA. His publications include 'Michel Henry's Problematic Reading of The Sickness unto Death', 'Michel Henry's Theory of Disclosive Moods', 'Michel Henry's Critique of the Limits of Intuition', 'Michel Henry and Soren Kierkegaard on Paradox and the Phenomenality of Christ', and 'Phenomenology and Eschatology in Michel Henry', among other essays on Kierkegaard and French phenomenology. He is the editor of Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist (Northwestern University Press).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Jeffrey Hanson and Michael Kelly; Part I: Phenomenology, Life, and Consciousness; 1. Immanence and Exteriority: The Problem of Desire, Renaud Barbaras; 2. Being and Nothingness Through the Prism of The Essence of Manifestation, Jad Hatem; 3. The Invisible and the Phenomenon, Jean-Luc Marion; 4. The Authenticity of Life, Ruud Welten; Part II: Christianity, God, and Incarnation; 5. Phenomenology and Soteriology in Michel Henry's Christian Trilogy, Sylvain Camilleri and Paul Valery; 6. Inward Life, Kevin Hart; Part III: Politics, Ethics, and Practice; 7. Toward a Radical Phenomenology of Social Life: Reflections from the Work of Michel Henry, Raphael Gely; 8. Material Phenomenology and Immanent Praxis, Rolf Kuhn; Part IV: Aesthetics, Art, and Culture; 9. The Double Logic of Aesthetic Individuation, Adnen Jdey; 10. Henry and the Animal, John Mullarkey; 11. The black river that feeds all': How Henry's Literature Expands His Philosophy, Miguel Garcia Baro; Bibliography; Index.

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GOR013385099
9781441145239
1441145230
Michel Henry: The Affects of Thought by Professor Jeffrey Hanson (Harvard University, USA)
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Continuum Publishing Corporation
2012-04-12
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