Auto-génération et liberté : Réflexions avec Michel Henry et Henri Maldiney
(2026)
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- Leclercq, Jean
- Abstract
- The research aims to outline, from a phenomenological approach, the possibility of a “subjectivity of liberation”, which presents itself as non-subjective and non-oppositional: a self-de-objectifying subjectivity. This subjectivity emerges from unexpected encounters that passively neutralize the substantial objectity of being and non-being, the latter understood as the opposite of being. This neutralization differs from that of phenomenological reduction, which is a subjective or voluntary practice, in that the neutralization results from a contradiction indicating the incompatibility between objectity and what is unexpectedly discovered. Passive neutralization thus makes possible a liberation which is based neither on being opposed to others nor on the self-objectification of liberation itself. Consequently, the self-transcendence of this liberation manifests itself as an openness toward others and the world, as being-with but without boundaries, as well as spontaneous and disinterested self-giving that seeks neither return nor objective. This research articulates this possibility of liberation through a set of phenomenological resources: Edmund Husserl for intentionality as phenomenality and the possibility of constituting meaning; Michel Henry for affectivity as a mode of connection to the world; Maurice Merleau-Ponty for the perception of the body as opening up to the world; and Henri Maldiney for transpassibility as a possibility of the passive discovery of the unexpected.
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Chik, W. K. (2026). Auto-génération et liberté : Réflexions avec Michel Henry et Henri Maldiney. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/273444