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Degree

Master of Arts

Program

Theory and Criticism

Supervisor

Antonio Calcagno

Abstract

This thesis evaluates Michel Henry’s phenomenology of the lived body: A thorough reconsideration of the role of the lived body in the transcendental constitution of our world has important ethical consequences. We begin with Heidegger’s definition of phenomenology, which rests on his understanding of time as the horizon of being. We then turn to Henry’s criticism of transcendental monism and its phenomenological derealization. Henry subsequently argues for a new thinking of immanence, which requires a redefinition of phenomenology through the immediate experience of the embodied self. This immediate immanence manifests itself, through our perception of transcendence, as the affective tonality accompanying its visibility. Existentially felt, immanence ultimately leads the thinking subject out of her perceived limits to the embrace of absolute Life.

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