Fenomenologia materialna – quasi-dekonstrukcja? Henry i Derrida (przeł. Z.M. Cielątkowska)

Abstrakt

When reading Michel Henry’s interpretation of Husserl’s Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness, one can be led to understand that Henry saw in Husserl’s writing a constant contamination of the constituted and the constituting. It transpires that Henry thinks of Husserl as not radical enough, while Derrida criticizes the same extracts of The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness as too radical. Nevertheless, it is surprising to see the points at which their reading of Husserl converge. Both come to opposite conclusions and, simultaneously, both of them question the presence described by Husserl. It would be interesting to reflect on the analyses carried out by the two authors. One may ask how material phenomenology could benefit from an interpretation of Derrida’s writings; on the other hand, what could be drawn from material phenomenology if the Derridean deconstruction was its starting point? The author strives to answer these questions and discusses how, with certain assumptions, Henry’s thought eludes the Derridean deconstruction.