Ricerc@Sapienza

In this paper I would like to situate Michel Henry’s position within the context of the phenomenological debate on inter-subjectivity. By distinguishing an apriori and an a posteriori approach to inter-subjectivity, I will try to demonstrate that Henry adopts the first solution. From this vantage point, Henry’s pathos-avec appears to be much more closer to the notion of ‘Mit-sein ’, than his harsh criticism against Heidegger would suggests – which exposes Henry’s position to all the difficulties of the a priori model in general and of that of Heidegger in particular.