Genesis and Phenomenalization: The Question of Phenomenology in the Young Richir Phenomenology in the Young Richir
Abstract
Marc Richir is one of the most important representatives of the third generation of phenomenologists. His immense work is nevertheless elusive and confusing.
The present work aims to highlight the specificity of his philosophical project. This work's reading is based on the texts of the young Richir from his first publications to the two volumes of Recherches phénoménologiques [1981-83].
It shows that what is at stake in these first publications continues to structure the whole of his later work. The examination of all the texts published at that time, as well as of many unpublished works recently discovered in the Marc Richir Archives in Wuppertal, allows us not only to situate the precise meaning of the different technical concepts used by Richir ["phenomenalization," "double movement," "transcendental phenomenology," "phenomenological schematism," "phenomenon as nothing but phenomenon," "institution," "pure appearance," "sublime," "double transcendence," etc.], but also to clarify his own methodology.
This book constitutes a privileged entry into Richir's work: it identifies the specificity of his phenomenology, notably in relation to the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida; it also endeavors to clarify many of Richir's most difficult strategic texts. Many little-known sources of his thought are also systematically studied, including the thought of Fichte and Nietzsche.