Michel Henry’s Practical Philosophy

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Providing theoretical and applied analyses of Michel Henry's practical philosophy in light of his guiding idea of Life, this is the first sustained exploration of Henry's practical thought in anglophone literature, reaffirming his centrality to contemporary continental thought. This book ranges from the tension between his methodological insistence on life as non-intentional and worldly activities to Henry's engagement with the practical philosophy of intellectuals such as Marx, Freud, and Kandisky to topics of application such as labor, abstract art, education, political liberalism, and spiritual life. An international team of leading Henry scholars examine a vital dimension of Henry's thinking that has remained under-explored for too long. Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Contributors Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Interpretations Chapter 2: From Affect to Action to Interpretation: On Michel Henry’s Theoria of Immanent Praxis Chapter 3: Affective Labor and the Henry-Ricoeur Debate over Marx Chapter 4: Spiritual Life and Cultural Discernment: Renewing Spirituality through Henry Chapter 5: Working in the “World of Life”: Michel Henry’s Philosophy of Subjective Labor Chapter 6: Freud after Henry Chapter 7: The World or Life’s Fragility: A New Critical Reading of Henry’s Phenomenology of Life  Part II: Applications Chapter 8: The Liberal Subject: The Politics of Life in Michel Henry Chapter 9: Michel Henry’s Barbarism and the Practices of Education Chapter 10: Abstract Color and Esthetic Experience: Michel Henry Reading Kandinsky Chapter 11: Affectivity and Its Effects: Social Prospects for the Pathetic Community Index