Affectivity as phenomenological foundation of community and experience of the other

A controversial area for phenomenology in general and for Michel Henry’s philosophy of life in particular, has been the understanding and the analyzing of intersubjectivity and the experience of the other. Henry’s phenomenology has as the central engagement of its reflection the subjectivity, concei...

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Main Author: Myriam Ximena Díaz Erbetta
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Pontificia Comillas 2019-07-01
Series:Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica
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Online Access:https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/pensamiento/article/view/7909
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Summary:A controversial area for phenomenology in general and for Michel Henry’s philosophy of life in particular, has been the understanding and the analyzing of intersubjectivity and the experience of the other. Henry’s phenomenology has as the central engagement of its reflection the subjectivity, conceived as an embodied reality (it is a body, a flesh), an affective and fundamentally living reality, whose praxis is expressed in subjective living work. For Henry’s philosophical point of view, otherness, intersubjectivity, and community are possible only from affectivity, conceived as the only horizon of manifestation, not just for subjectivity but for all possible manifestation, that is to say, as the essence of manifestation.
ISSN:0031-4749
2386-5822