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The Unrealized Eschatology of Michel Henry: Theological Gestures from his Phenomenological Aesthetics
Author(s) -
Rios Christopher C.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/moth.12568
Subject(s) - phenomenology (philosophy) , eschatology , articulation (sociology) , philosophy , foregrounding , praxis , aesthetics , gesture , embodied cognition , epistemology , theology , linguistics , politics , political science , law
This study responds to readings of Michel Henry’s eschatology as over‐realized through an analysis of his frequently neglected phenomenological aesthetics in Seeing the Invisible: On Kandinsky in light of the theological articulation of his phenomenology of life. It argues for a distinctly unrealized thrust to his program by foregrounding the notion of monumental art and the rootedness of human praxis , artistic and otherwise, in concrete sensible reality. The conclusion suggests that Henry’s project, while theologically problematic, opens a path towards the development of a theological phenomenological cosmology when supplemented.