I am the truth : toward a philosophy of Christianity

Abstract

A part of return to religion now evident in European philosophy, this book represents culmination of career of a leading phenomenological thinker whose earlier works trace a trajectory from Marx through a genealogy of psychoanalysis that interprets Descartes's think, I am as 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 as essential truth that by some mysterious affinity is suitable for them, to point that it alone is capable of ensuring them salvation. In process, Henry inevitably argues against concept of truth that dominates modern thought and determines, in its multiple implications, world in which we live.Henry argues that Christ undoes the truth of world, that He is an access to infinity of self-love, to a radical subjectivity that admits no outside, to immanence of affective life found beyond despair fatally attached to all objectifying thought. The Kingdom of God accomplishes itself in here and now through 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.