Michel Henry o náboženské zkušenosti
Michel Henry on Religious Experience

Summary/Abstract: This paper summarizes Michel Henry’s thinking on religious experience. It describes the two phenomenological interpretations of religious experience found in his last three philosophical books: the first, universalist interpretation is linked to the belief in the transcendental relationship of the human self to God; the second, particularist interpretation concerns the story of salvation as told in Henry‘s Christian trilogy, and uses the metaphor of the “second birth” to portray the new self-discovery of the human self in Christ. The paper also notes some problematic or surprising moments in Henry’s thinking about religious experience: his provocative rejection of all hermeneutics in relation to religious experience, and a certain closeness of his conception of human subjectivity to that of his poststructuralist contemporaries, from whose thought Henry at the same time seeks to distance himself.

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