ABSTRACT
A young intellectual, Michel Henry, having just successfully completed his first academic degree with a study of Spinoza, joined a section of the undercover French Resistance located in the Haut-Jura, a natural park on the French-Swiss border, and committed to fighting the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. He was given the codename “Kant” because there were only a few peculiar items among his personal effects, including a copy of Immanual Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Henry was the author of numerous philosophical works on a host of subjects, which, though diverse, are deeply intertwined. In 1996, just after publishing his first book on Christianity, Henry schematized his corpus a little differently than we did. The conclusion of Henry’s philosophy is that only “God” is radical enough to render justice to the plain and incontrovertible jouissance of our experience as living, and that the most divine—the most living—God is the God of Jesus Christ.
