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1922–2002 France

Michel Henry (10 January 1922 – 3 July 2002) was a French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist. He wrote five novels and numerous philosophical works.

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To be born is not to come into the world. To be born is to come into life.

I am the Truth. Toward a philosophy of Christianity (1996)

No abstraction, no ideality has never been neither in position to produce a real action nor, by consequence, what only represents it.

Affectivity has ever accomplished its work when the world rises.

The Essence of Manifestation (1963)

Life is uncreated. Foreign to creation, foreign to the world, every process conferring Life is a process of generation.

Words of Christ (2002)

That which is felt without the intermediary of any sense whatsoever is in its essence affectivity.

The Essence of Manifestation (1963)

The Marxism is the whole of the misinterpretations that have been done about Marx.

Marx. A Philosophy of Human Being (1976)

The spectacle of the beauty which embodies itself in a living being is infinitely more touching than that of the work the most grandiose.

L'amour les yeux fermés (1976)

No object has ever had the experience of being touched.

Incarnation: A philosophy of Flesh (2000)

Suffering makes up the tissue of the existence, it is the place where the life becomes living, the reality and the phenomenological effectivity of this gradual change.

The Essence of Manifestation (1963)

But joy has nothing about which it may be joyful. Far to come after the coming of being and to marvel in front of it, joy is consubstantial with being, joy founds it and forms it.

The Essence of Manifestation (1963)

When what feels nothing and doesn't feel oneself, has no desire and no love, is put at the principle of the organization of the world, it's the time of madness that comes, because madness has all lost except reason.

Inasmuch as the essence of community is affectivity, the community is not limited to humans alone. It includes everything that is defined in itself by the primal suffering of life and thus by the possibility of suffering. This pathos-with is the brosdest form of every conceivable community.

Material Phenomenology (1990)

The community is a subterranean affective layer and each one drinks the same water at this source and at from this wellspring which he is itself -- but without knowing it, without distinguishing between the self, the other, and the Basis.

Material Phenomenology (1990)

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