Life as absolute unconditioned: about the materiality’s essence of manifestation in the Michel Henry’s phenomenology

Abstract

The Material Phenomenology of Michel Henry reveals the immense life domain that supposes another concept of absolute, namely, this originating life in each cogitatio as auto affection, where nor the life and neither the revealed about her are mere abstract concepts, but a carnally susceptible reality. This life knowledge opens counter-reductively, so that the radical life passibility from a feeling that always occurs in the ipseity of its pathetic flesh, Verb and flesh had always been together as absolute beginning independent of the representations.  In this measure, to go to the ‘same thing’ of this non-intentional phenomenology implies in discovering the being in the transparency of its itself coming, absolutely independent, whose phenomenally process dispenses a distance. Thus, Henry insists on the pathos that ego sum without forcing us to pass by a representation, thanks to the primacy of appearing on its own apparition, however, remains as latent question to understand in what consists this life as unconditioned absolute. How is it possible to talk about this life that carries out the experience of itself, identifying with such movement? Therefore, this work has as central base L’essence de la Manifestation by Michel Henry that, in our view, defends as thesis phenomenal becoming of the being which a pure affection of himself in his own body, and in this measure, would be presented as a good foundation per converting from transcendence to a pure immanence the unveiling of the own self.