Material Phenomenology

Material Phenomenology offers Michel Henry's most sustained investigation of Husserlian phenomenology. With painstaking detail and precision, Henry reveals the decisive methodological assumptions that led Husserlian phenomenology in the direction Idealism. Returning to the materiality of life, Henry's material phenomenology situates central phenomenological themes - intentionality, temporality, embodiment and intersubjectivity - within the full concreteness of life. This book is essential reading for those interested in the future of phenomenology or in a philosophy of life in the truest sense.

MICHEL HENRY was Professor of Philosophy at the Universit Paul Valry, Montpelier. The most recent of his books to appear in English Translation are I Am the Truth: Toward a Philosophy of Christianity and The Genealogy of Psychoanalysis.

SCOTT DAVIDSON is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Oklahoma City University.