The living body as a precondition of intersubjective knowledge in Edmund Husserl and Michel Henry

Abstract

Edmund Husserl got over the traditional dichotomy between subject and object, ideality and materiality, body and mentality by changing it into a new relationship of subjectivity and world. However, for Michel Henry, one of his later successors, this is not sufficient.

His "radical philosophy of life" emphasizes a central topic of phenomenological analysis that was from his point of view not yet considered deeply enough: the life itself. This article asks what follows from such a radicalization of transcendental phenomenology for the conception of intersubjectivity

Keywords

• Edmund Husserl
• Michel Henry
• living body
• intersubjectivity
• naturalism
• transcendental phenomenology