[1] The relevant philosophical project is called "radical phenomenology of life" (phénoménologie radicale de la vie) or "material phenomenology of life" (phénoménologie matérielle de la vie).
This part of phenomenology has been developed by the French philosopher Michel Henry, since his fundamental book on The Essence of Manifestation;[2] it studies the subjective life of individuals in its pathetic and affective reality as pure impression.
[8][9] Starting from this phenomenological approach to life, in Incarnation, a Philosophy of Flesh[10] Michel Henry establishes a radical opposition between the living flesh endowed with sensibility and the material body, which is in principle insensible.
[14] Life is by nature invisible because it never appears in the exteriority of a look; it reveals itself in itself without gap or distance.
[17] Love cannot see itself, any more than hatred; feelings are felt in the secrecy of our hearts, where no look can penetrate.