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Sexuality as Unity in Life: An Approach from Michel Henry\'s Phenomenology of Incarnation

Authors

MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ, JUAN PABLO

External publication

No

Means

Religions

Scope

Article

Nature

Científica

JCR Quartile

SJR Quartile

SJR Impact

0.368

Publication date

01/10/2023

ISI

001095331400001

Scopus Id

2-s2.0-85175293352

Abstract

This article aims to promote the integration of knowledge and life based on a phenomenological description of sexuality and erotic relations. To carry out this task, I will follow the approaches of the French philosopher Michel Henry in order to extract the anthropological consequences of a phenomenology of incarnation pertaining to sexuality. Both the peculiar union produced by the sexual act and its perpetually threatened condition through the "event" of nihilation of the flesh will be the object of reflection throughout this work. In my search for the reintegration of the human being through the sexual act, I will show the importance of woman and her spiritual superiority in deepening the intimate meaning of sexuality. Further, I will argue that the intersubjective experience lived in sexual practice demands a consideration of human beings from their ultimate condition of relational possibility (Life), emphasizing their engendered, not merely created, condition. Thus, the salvation of human beings and their involvement in the coming of Life to them is intrinsically related to that carnal disposition which aids to unify them, beyond their diversity, in their self-revelation in Life.

Keywords

Life; knowledge; flesh; affectivity; sexuality

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