Frédéric Seyler
BIO
Education
Bio
Frédéric was educated at the Université catholique de Louvain, the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Université de Lorraine.
He teaches courses and conducts research in the areas of 19th & 20th Century French and German philosophy, phenomenology and existentialism, German idealism, philosophy of religion, ethics and aesthetics.
His research primarily focuses on Michel Henry’s phenomenology of life (also known as “material phenomenology”) and its further development in dialogue with the phenomenological tradition and thinkers like Fichte, Bergson, Sartre and, more recently, R. Barbaras.
His published work includes a co-translation of Fichte’s theory of religion into French (Paris: Vrin 2012).
He is co-editor of The Michel Henry Reader (Evanston: Northwestern University Press 2019) and of Sein, Existenz, Leben: Michel Henry and Martin Heidegger (Freiburg: Alber 2013).
He is the author of:
‘Barbarie ou culture’: L’éthique de l’affectivité dans la phénoménologie de Michel Henry (Paris : Kimé 2010);
Eine Ethik der Affektivität: Die Lebensphänomenologie Michel Henrys (Freiburg: Alber 2010);
Fichte’s ‘Anweisung zum seligen Leben’. Ein Kommentar zur Religionslehre von 1806 (Freiburg: Alber 2014).
He has also published numerous articles in journals such as Studia Phaenomenologica, Analecta Hermeneutica, Fichte-Studien, Michel Henry Kenkyu, Le Portique as well as encyclopedia entries for the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology or the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.