L’ivresse de la vie selon Michel Henry
Abstracts
We often say that our present time is “individualistic”, but do we really know what an individual is? The philosopher Michel Henry invites us to think individuality from its root, independently from current or sociological discourse. By applying a phenomenological method, Henry purports to have brought out the truth of an original individuality that, far from coming down to a pure concept, reveals itself concretely in an affective experience which he has called “life’s euphoria”. Tracing back the principle of individualisation to the immanence of life described as a pathetic auto-donation, the author rigorously criticises any ecstatic conception that reduces the individual to an organic and objective totality, renewing the Christian interpretation of the individual.
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Bibliographical reference
Vincent Moser, “L’ivresse de la vie selon Michel Henry”, Revue des sciences religieuses, 84/1 | 2010, 85-105.
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Vincent Moser, “L’ivresse de la vie selon Michel Henry”, Revue des sciences religieuses [Online], 84/1 | 2010, Online since 20 January 2014, connection on 28 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rsr/369; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rsr.369
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