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- Title
MICHEL HENRY ET LA CRITIQUE DU POLITIQUE.
- Authors
Seyler, Frédéric
- Abstract
Does Michel Henry's Phenomenology of life include an ethical and political dimension? It appears that the writings about Marx already include such aspects, especially in reference to the problem of social determinism. More generally, however, our attention must be focused on what Henry calls the transcendental genesis of politics which accounts for the lack of autonomy of the political field, just like in the case of economics. Politics may then be analyzed against that background, for instance in the writings on totalitarianism and democracy. the frame given by transcendental genesis is also tied to the fundamental opposition between barbarism and culture which pervades the axiological implications of Henry's work. Because culture is always referring to a "culture of life," it allows connecting life and its immanent reality with ethical/political questions.
- Subjects
HENRY, Michel; PHENOMENOLOGY; DETERMINISM (Philosophy); TRANSCENDENCE (Philosophy); POLITICAL doctrines; TOTALITARIANISM; DEMOCRACY
- Publication
Studia Phaenomenologica, 2009, Vol 9, p351
- ISSN
1582-5647
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7761/SP.9.351