The reworking and the renewal of the eidetic project and method is at the very heart of Marc Richir’ s phenomenology. Our paper examines his close reading of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, paying ...attention to the directions that the German and the French phenomenologist assigned to the consideration of the eidos and to that of the distinction between essence and fact. After having identified, in Husserl, two senses of facticity that imply a different relation to the eidos, we focus on Merleau-Ponty’ s emphasis on the “indivision” between the essential and the factual, and on his conception of a wild Wesen or of a “raw Being (Être brut)”. At last and in connection with these previous elements of analysis, we provide an overview of Richir’ s main contributions to a phenomenological eidetics, highlighting, in particular, the importance that he attaches to the irreducible indeterminacy of the eidos, to its ever-unfinished genesis and to the impossibility of its totalization or its complete unification.
The so called “hyperbolic épochè” by Richir has currently been understood from its consequences alone (“suspension of the symbolic institution”, “return to the realm of the pre-objective”, ...“suspension of intentionality itself ”). We thus miss the very specificity of its operations. Among these, the hypothesis of a Genius Malignus should be grasped as a counter-apperception which leads to a suspension of the phenomenologizing ego itself, therefore spread away from the living present and from its identity with the transcendental ego and the pre-being of the transcendental in general. Only such a counterperformativity allows the phenomenalization of a wider spectrum of phenomena that can only be analyzed by means of an architectonical reduction. 1.
On November 9th, Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States of America. Alain Badiou, who was in the US during that time, responded to the election in a talk at the ...University of California, Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the program in Experimental Critical Theory and the Center for European and Russian Studies. The following text is a translation of the transcript of his response, originally written in English and published at the website Mariborchan and the publishing house Verso. Badiou reflects not only on the specific event of the election, but on the situation of the world today.
The article proposes an analysis of Walter Benjamin’s writings on law, more specifically on the author’s critique of the violent dimension of law. It seeks to analyze the genesis of the concept of ...“dispossession of law” “Entsetzung des Rechts” and its use within Benjamin’s writings. The article is divided into three parts: the first part seeks to contextualize Benjamin’s critique of law in light of the Marxian conception of right. In a second moment, the notion of “Entsetzung des Rechts” is analyzed, as well as its possible interpretations based on the semantic scope inscribed in the term and in the German language. Finally, the paper will seek to clarify the notion of Entsetzung des Rechts in relation to other concepts and texts of the author.
Why can we not fix the “moment” of the sublime as an (archi-)event? This question inspired by an affirmation of Marc Richir provides a point of departure for the present study on the archeology of ...the phenomenological subject according to two contemporary phenomenologists, Marc Richir and Renaud Barbaras. Thus, the paper deals with the most archaic layers of the subjectivity thematized under Barbaras’ notion of archi-event and Richir’ s notion of “moment” of the sublime. After their confrontation in the light of the “phenomenon” they both intend to describe, it comes to the conclusion that Richir’ s criticism of the notion of event is justified and may even be extended in such a way that it affects the notion of archi-event.
This paper focuses on an important moment in Richir’ s elaboration of the question of method and architectonic: his confrontation with Fink’ s phenomenology and especially with Sixth Cartesian ...Meditation. Moving from Fink’ s approach to phenomenological reduction and to architectonic in the Sixth Cartesian Meditation, we will see how Richir recasts them in the Sixth Phenomenological Meditation.
This article is dedicated to Richir’ s basic understanding of the phenomenon and the phenomenalisation. It is divided into three parts. The first part deals with Richir’ s concept of the phenomenon ...in general and the reference to the concept of the “transcendental” in particular. The second part is devoted to the concept of “phenomenalisation” in the “Notes sur la phénoménalisation” (1969–70), which has remained unpublished to this day. The focus is on the decoupling of “phenomenality” and “eideticity”, the explanation of the “circle of foresight”, the “ontic-ontological circle” and the question of the relationship between “phenomenalisation” and “writing”. The third part is interested in the connection between “phenomenalisation” and “architectonics” in the late Richir. In it, “architectonics” is emphasized as a specific mode of phenomenalization.
Genèse et facticité Forestier, Florian
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Interpretationes,
2019, Volume:
9, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Open access
By opening the investigation to scattered and inchoative states, Marc Richir’ s phenomenology reverses the relation between legitimation and receptivity. He calls into question the idea of a ...spontaneous adhesion of the experience to itself and reformulates the Husserlian problematic of Ur-doxa without abandoning the ambition of legitimation. Legitimation is no longer ensured by the donation of a sense but by a gesture of reinstitution.
In the following considerations we want to demonstrate that “architectonics” in the Kantian sense, as the “zetetic principle of search”, forms an informative tool to address the dynamization of the ...transcendental, an extremely productive motif of contemporary philosophy in general, and of phenomenology in particular. Furthermore, we want to outline the extent to which Marc Richir tries to make the concept of architectonics fruitful in order to address the “phenomenality of phenomena” in its irreducible contingency, without concealing it in an archaeological foundation or teleological finalization.
This essay is a commentary on the second of Marc Richir’ s five Phenomenological Investigations (Recherches phénoménologiques). This investigation is remarkable in several respects, since it is here ...that central concepts assess their architectural value in the horizon of elaborating an independent transcendental phenomenology. Even if terms such as ‘appearance’ , ‘ontological simulacrum’ or ‘infinite periphery’ are older, it is only in this text that their relationship is specified, in a way that remains pathbreaking for later reworkings or refoundations of phenomenological method and architectonics. In particular, the transcendental reduction of the ontological to appearance, as well as the self-evolvement of appearance, which can be interpreted therein due to its self-reflexivity, are fundamental figures in Richir’ s thinking.
