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Larticle se propose de thmatiser le problme de la mdiation tel quil se pose dans le cadre
de la philosophie de laffectivit de Michel Henry. Celle-ci, en effet, pense la subjectivit
en termes dimmanence, ce qui rend problmatique lintervention de mdiations, notamment
thiques et politiques, dans le devenir de la subjectivit. Pourtant ces aspects ne sont pas
absents de luvre de M. Henry, par exemple lorsque ce dernier labore le concept de barbarie
(1987). Comment concilier ces deux exigences, immanence et critique thico-politique, alors
quelles semblent pourtant sexclurent mutuellement?
The theme of the article is the problem of ethical and political mediations in the works of
Michel Henry, especially in his essay on barbarity (1987). Henrys philosophy of affectivity
relies nevertheless on the concept of immanence as the essence of subjectivity. The link
between this concept and ethical-political critique turns out to be rather problematic because
ethical and political mediations must be thought of in terms of transcendence, i.e. with no
connection to the changes in subjectivity and affectivity.