Incarnation by Michel Henry

Incarnation by Michel Henry

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Michel Henry defends the illuminating thesis that Incarnation is not existence in a body, but existence in the flesh. It is not in a body that flesh appears originally, but being in the flesh that comes first. For only in flesh can one see or touch, feel joy or sorrow, hunger or thirst—and undergo each of these impressions as one’s own.

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Incarnation by Michel Henry

Michel Henry defends the illuminating thesis that Incarnation is not existence in a body, but existence in the flesh. It is not in a body that flesh appears originally, but being in the flesh that comes first. For only in flesh can one see or touch, feel joy or sorrow, hunger or thirst—and undergo each of these impressions as one’s own. But how does flesh come into this condition? How is life given to it so that it can feel itself, or anything else, in this way? Christianity’s fundamental thesis, on which its fate plays out in every generation, is that “the Word was made flesh.” Henry then asks what revelation must be for it to be accomplished as flesh, and what flesh must be to be revelation. He pursues such questions with lucidity and rigor in this astonishing meditation on the human condition.
Michel Henry (1922–2002) was a leading French philosopher and prize-winning novelist. His books previously translated into English include Barbarism (2012), Material Phenomenology (2008), and Genealogy of Psychoanalysis (1993).

Karl Hefty currently holds an Arthur J. Ennis, O.S.A. Postdoctoral Fellowship at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, USA.
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ISBN 13 9780810131262
ISBN 10 0810131269
Titre Incarnation
Auteur Michel Henry
Série Studies In Phenomenology And Existential Philosophy
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Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Northwestern University Press
Année de publication 2015-06-30
Nombre de pages 312
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