Last year, the Lyceum Institute again hosted Dr. Steven DeLay (Research Fellow, Global Centre for Advanced Studies, Dublin and Tutorial Fellow, Ambrose College, Woolf University) in presenting his research. A prolific author and expert in French phenomenology, we are delighted to have Dr. DeLay contributing to our colloquia for the second year in a row. His colloquium lecture, “You Are Not Your Own: Another Look at the Body, Flesh, and the Henry-Falque Debate” is now available below.
Lyceum Institute Colloquium
You are Not Your Own: Another Look at the Body, Flesh, and the Henry-Falque Debate
ABSTRACT: The problem of the body has been a central preoccupation of phenomenology since its inception. At the same time, it is also a theological problem. After briefly surveying the understanding of the body found in classical phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty), this paper presents Michel Henry’s phenomenology of life in terms of the philosophy of flesh that he formulates in response to historical phenomenology’s conception of the body. It then concludes by examining Emmanuel Falque’s objections to Henry’s account of embodiment, with an eye to drawing some general conclusions about the role of the phenomenon of the body in philosophical and theological discourse about being.
The recorded Q&A session is available to all enrolled Lyceum Institute members.
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