Michel Henry
| Michel Henry | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 January 1922 Haiphong, French Indochina (present-day Vietnam) |
| Died | 3 July 2002 Albi, France |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School |
Phenomenology Material phenomenology |
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Main interests
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Ethics Philosophy of religion |
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Notable ideas
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Phenomenology of life, material phenomenology, phenomenological life, phenomenological definition of God |
Michel Henry (French: [ɑ̃ʁi]; 10 January 1922 – 3 July 2002) was a French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist. He wrote five novels and numerous philosophical works. He also lectured at universities in France, Belgium, the United States of America, and Japan.
Michel Henry was born in Haiphong, French Indochina (now Vietnam), and he lived in French Indochina until he was seven years old. Following the death of his father, who was an officer in the French Navy, he and his mother settled in metropolitan France. While studying in Paris, he discovered a true passion for philosophy, which he decided to make his profession—he enrolled at the École Normale Supérieure. From June 1943 he was fully engaged with the French Resistance, joining the maquis of the Haut Jura under the code name of Kant. He often had to come down from the mountains in order to accomplish missions in Nazi-occupied Lyon, an experience of clandestinity that deeply marked his philosophy.
At the end of the war he took the final part of the philosophy examination at the university, following which he wrote in 1963 a doctoral thesis, titled L'essence de la manifestation (The Essence of Manifestation), under the direction of Jean Hyppolite, Jean Wahl, Paul Ricœur, Ferdinand Alquié, and Henri Gouhier. His first book, on the Philosophy and Phenomenology of the Body, was completed in 1950. His first significant published work was on The Essence of Manifestation, to which he devoted long years of necessary research in order to surmount the main deficiency of all intellectualist philosophy, the ignorance of life as experienced.
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