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I Am the Truth: Toward a Philosophy of Christianity

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Description for I Am the Truth: Toward a Philosophy of Christianity Paperback. A part of the "return to religion" now evident in European philosophy, this book represents the culmination of the career of a leading phenomenologist who investigates the multiple kinds of truth associated with Christianity. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 2. Weight in Grams: 400.

A part of the “return to religion” now evident in European philosophy, this book represents the culmination of the career of a leading phenomenological thinker whose earlier works trace a trajectory from Marx through a genealogy of psychoanalysis that interprets Descartes’s “I think, I am” as “I feel myself thinking, I am.”

In this book, Henry does not ask whether Christianity is “true” or “false.” Rather, what is in question here is what Christianity considers as truth, what kind of truth it offers to people, what it endeavors to communicate to them, not as a theoretical and indifferent truth, but ... Read more

Henry argues that Christ undoes “the truth of the world,” that He is an access to the infinity of self-love, to a radical subjectivity that admits no outside, to the immanence of affective life found beyond the despair fatally attached to all objectifying thought. The Kingdom of God accomplishes itself in the here and now through the love of Christ in what Henry calls “the auto-affection of Life.” In this condition, he argues, all problems of lack, ambivalence, and false projection are resolved.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present Series
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804737807
SKU
V9780804737807
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About Michel Henry
Michel Henry is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paul Valéry, Montpelier. Among his books translated into English is A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis (Stanford, 1993)

Reviews for I Am the Truth: Toward a Philosophy of Christianity
"Henry's philosophy of Christianity at some moments resonates with identifiable Christian claims and at others is radically revisionist if not subversive of Christian thought, all the while joining, if not propelling, the phenomenological turn toward theology."—Journal of Religion "Henrys unique and fascinating approach to phenomenological theory... deserves careful and attentive reading."—Histoire sociale "Defiant, moving, and vastly challenging, this book contains ... Read more

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