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Inner Distance and Surreptitious Patience According to Jean-Louis Chrétien

Emmanuel Housset

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All the work of Jean-Louis Chrétien highlights that interiority can be thought without subjectivity and that this figure of interiority, whose patience is the mode of its being, is understood well before the philosophy of the subject and does not constitute its prehistory. It is also what will survive the disappearance of the subject's philosophies and its multiple offshoots. This is not a simple historical fact, but a necessity of essence, since a conception of interiority that is only a force of absorption ends up being filled with everything and losing its form in radical anonymity. The identification of person with subject, which marks our philosophical epoch, leads to a depersonalization linked to the emptiness of a life whose founding act is the representation and not the response. Conversely, patient interiority overcomes the impossibility humans face with attempting to unify themselves by making patient interiority the ground of a human being’s benevolence and action. It is based, in its constant becoming, on the only act that does not pass away, that of the response, while all representations, even the highest, disappear. Thus, true interiorization does not fill my lack of being; rather, it leads me far beyond what I imagined to be from my reflection on myself.

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hal-04384307 , version 1 (10-01-2024)

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Emmanuel Housset. Inner Distance and Surreptitious Patience According to Jean-Louis Chrétien. Elodie Boublil; Antonio Calcagno. Rethinking Interiority. Phenomenological approaches, State University of New York press, pp.103-116, 2023, (SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy), 978-1-4384-9313-8. ⟨hal-04384307⟩
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