Michel Henry’s Practical Philosophy

Brian Harding is Professor of Philosophy at Texas Women's University, USA. He is author of Not Even a God can Save us Now: Reading Machiavelli after Heidegger (2017) and co-editor with Michael R. Kelly of Early Phenomenology: Metaphysics, Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion (Bloomsbury, 2016).Jeffrey Hanson is Senior Philosopher at Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program, USA. He is author of Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith: The Aesthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious in "Fear and Trembling" (2017), Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist: An Experiment (2010), and co-editor with Michael R. Kelly of Michel Henry: The Affects of Thought (Bloomsbury, 2013).Michael R. Kelly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego, USA. He is co-editor of Bergson and Phenomenology, 2010), with Jefferey Hanson Michel Henry: The Affects of Thought ( Bloomsbury, 2012), and with Brian Harding, Early Phenomenology: Metaphysics, Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion (Bloomsbury 2016) and Phenomenology and the Problem of Time (2016).

• IntroductionPart 1: Interpretations 1. From Affect to Action to Interpretation: On Michel Henry’s Theoria of Immanent Praxis (Frédéric Seyler, de Paul University, USA)2. Affective Labor and the Henry-Ricoeur Debate over Marx (Scott Davidson, West Virginia University, USA)3. Spiritual Life and Cultural Discernment: Thinking Spirituality through Michel Henry (Neal DeRoo, Kings University, Canada)4. Working in the “World of Life”: Michel Henry’s Philosophy of Subjective Labor (Jeffrey Hanson, Havard University, USA)5. Freud after Henry (Ruud Welten, Tilburg University, The Netherlands) 6. The World or Life’s Fragility: A New Critical Reading of Henry’s Phenomenology of Life (Paula Lorelle, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)Part 2: Applications7. The Liberal Subject: The Politics of Life in Michel Henry (Joseph Rivera, Dublin City University, Ireland)8. Michel Henry’s Barbarism and the practices of education (Brian Harding, Texas Women's University, USA)9. Russian Avant-Garde and Michel Henry’s Radical Phenomenology (Ioulia Podoroga, Geneva University, Switzerland)10. Affectivity and its Effects: Social Prospects for the Pathetic Community (Aaron Simmons, Furman University, USA and Maia Wellborn, Fordham University, USA)ConclusionIndex

Combining careful readings of Michel Henry’s phenomenology with intriguing applications of his philosophy in the areas of psychoanalysis, pedagogy, economics, politics, spirituality, aesthetics, and socio-cultural engagement, this important collection helps us see the relevance of Henry’s complex thought for various fields of practical philosophy and for concrete action today.