7 papers in the library · publishing 2026
Quiet Powers of the Possible January 13, 2026 Michel Henry
In this interview, compiled by Jean Leclecq and Grégori Jean, Michel Henry discusses his education, his place in the history of phenomenology, his phenomenology of life and the body, and his books on Marx and the philosophy of Christianity.
Quiet Powers of the Possible January 13, 2026 Jean-Luc Marion
In this interview, Jean-Luc Marion discusses his intellectual upbringing at the École Normale Supérieure and answers a number of questions about his interpretation of the history of metaphysics, his books on Descartes, the development of the “phenomenology of givenness,” and the relation between phenomenology and theology.
Quiet Powers of the Possible January 13, 2026 Françoise Dastur
In this interview, Françoise Dastur discusses her formation as a phenomenologist, her scholarly work on the history of phenomenology, and her phenomenology of human finitude and mortality.
Quiet Powers of the Possible January 13, 2026 Claude Romano
In this interview, Claude Romano discusses his magnum opus, Au coeur de la raison: la phénoménologie (At the Heart of Reason) and defends the “phenomenological thesis” that there is a pre-lingusitic order of experience distinct from the forms of conceptual thought and the linguistic schemes that underlie them.
Quiet Powers of the Possible January 13, 2026 Renaud Barbaras
In this interview, Renaud Barbaras discusses his intellectual itinerary toward Merleau-Ponty, the history of phenomenological anthropology, and his distinctive approach to the phenomenology of life.
Quiet Powers of the Possible January 13, 2026 Jean-Yves Lacoste
In this interview, Jean-Yves Lacoste disputes the existence of a “theological turn” in contemporary French phenomenology and offers a sketch of his own phenomenology of liturgy.
Quiet Powers of the Possible January 13, 2026 Emmanuel Falque
In this interview, Emmanuel Falque measures the distance that separates his generation from that of his teachers and argues that the problem of circumscribing the “history of metaphysics” no longer interests most phenomenologists. He also discusses the relation between phenomenology and theology and his work on the theology of human finitude.