The Bifurcated Subject

• Published in: International journal of philosophical studies : IJPS Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 415 - 434
• Main Author: Alweiss, Lilian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.07.2009
• Subjects: Conceptualization; Consciousness; Descartes; Embodiment; first person perspective; Husserl; Imagination; Michel Henry; Philosophers; Philosophy; Self; the self

Michel Henry wishes to salvage Descartes's first principle 'I think, I am' by claiming that there is no need to appeal to the world or others to make sense of the self. One of his main targets is Edmund Husserl, who claims that thought is necessarily intentional and thus necessarily a...