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The Body of the Response

Emmanuel Housset

Résumé

Jean-Louis Chrétien has sought constantly to show that it is through the body that we are a dialogue. Yet he never wanted to write a "phenomenology of the body," because on the one hand it seemed too pretentious to him, while, on the other hand, the body is not merely one phenomenon among others but what gives access to phenomena; it is a condition of phenomenality itself. With his philosophy of the responding body, Chrétien follows the path opened by Husserl, which continued with Merleau-Ponty, and more recently with Didier Franck and Jean-Luc Marion. Indeed, the question of the body is at the heart of every philosophical analysis that would go beyond the philosophy of the subject, which is to say that of representation, in order to discover the excess of what is given and the irreducibility of the phenomenon to the a priori conditions of subjectivity. The body is thus the place of an encounter with the world, of hearing one’s neighbor and of a confrontation with God such as in Jacob's struggle with the angel. It is the body of a subjectivity exposed and even wounded by what it encounters, but which becomes truly aware of itself only through this injury.

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Philosophie
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hal-04384283 , version 1 (10-01-2024)

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Emmanuel Housset. The Body of the Response. Jeffrey Bloechl. Fragility and Transcendence. Essays on the Thought of Jean-Louis Chrétien, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp.45-61, 2023, (Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion), 978-1-5381-5324-5. ⟨hal-04384283⟩
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