This book is Michel Henry's most sustained investigation of Husserlian
phenomenology. With painstaking detail and precision, Henry reveals the
decisive methodological assumptions that led Husserlian phenomenology
in the direction of Idealism. Returning to the materiality of life,
Henry's material phenomenology situates central phenomenological
themes--intentionality, temporality, embodiment, and
intersubjectivity--within the full concreteness of life.
One of the most accessible of Henry's books, Material Phenomenology is
essential reading for those interested in the future of phenomenology or
in a philosophy of life in the truest sense.