MICHEL HENRY: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE SUBJETIVE BODY
contribution towards the epistemology of corporality
Résumé
The main goal of this paper is to show the main concepts of M. Henry’s phenomenological approach to corporality in Philosophie et Phénoménologie du corps (1965), the principal work where M. Henry develops these analysis. Here he frequently uses Maine de Biran’s (1766–1824) arguments to promote his own philosophy. Cartesianism, Empiricism and Kantian philosophy –the same as mainstream Biomedicine– conceive the body as an object. Henry describes the kind of body outlined by Biran as an 'incarnated body', highlighting the role of language operating in how we end considering our body as an ‘object’. To Henry, the body is subjective and is the ego itself: a body which is an “I”. This is the ‘original fact’ with which his phenomenology begins. Henry claims for the need of an ontology of subjectivity, because an empirical conception of interior life only shows the failure of empirical psychology in the attempt to explain movement and corporality in general. Henry tries to build a phenomenological ontology of the body. The type of movement which intellectualism attempts to reconstruct is in reality only a representation of movement.
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