As early as in the works of Husserl, Heidegger or Merleau-Ponty, life stood in the very center of phenomenological analysis. Nevertheless, there is a double plurality of the notion "life" to be noted: the plurality of attribution (life being attributed once to the consciousness, other times to organisms, other times identified to existence) and the plurality of meaning (life is said in different ways).
The present article examines the recent works by Renaud Barbaras in the light of the two kinds of plurality.