¿Crisis o barbárie? La enfermedad de la vida y la crítica de la cultura en Michel Henry
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Michel Henry. Crisis. Barbarism. Life. Culture.Abstract
In this article I review Michel Henry’s notion of barbarism understood as a disease of life. I argue that it is opposed to culture, which consists in the self-aggrandizement of life. In this framework, I compare the critique of culture and the diagnosis of the crisis in historical phenomenology and in the phenomenology of life, focusing on the contrast between the vindication of the world of life and the defense of acosmic life. I then delve into Henri’s diagnosis of barbarism by addressing three of its main manifestations, namely, political economy, art, and science. Finally, I briefly compare Henry’s position with contemporary works on the “worlds-of-death” and the ethics of care, calling for the elaboration of an ethics of life with a view to its liberation.
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