L’eredità impossibile. Fenomenologia e filosofia dell'immanenza a partire da Fichte e Michel Henry

The paper considers the relation between Fichte’s philosophy (1804-1806) and Michel Henry’s phenomenology of Life. It does so situating the concept of ‘auton- omy’ with respect to the notions of Life and of manifestation of the Absolute both in Fichte’s and Henry’s thoughts of ‘immanence’. This situation affords a crucial distinction between two ways of thinking the phenomenological sense of immanent life of the Absolute. This distinction, in turn, affords an occasion for reflection on the general sense of Henry’s radicalization of the phenomenological ‘epoché’ and on its consequences.