title: Seeing the Invisible: On Kandinsky
author:  Michel Henry 
description: "Michel Henry's work consistently re-imagines the means through which life incarnates or makes manifest to itself the very essence of its being. In Seeing the Invisible Henry extends his philosophy, as material phenomenology, to the aesthetic, reappraising abstract art in terms of affectivity, emotional life and the essential communication that takes place between the community and the artwork at the level of sensibility. Scott Davidson's clear and timely translation provides the reader with both a revolutionary take on twentieth century art and a gateway into the thought of one of the leading French philosophers of the past fifty years."  Dr Michael O'Sullivan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong<br /><br />Michel Henry's work consistently re-imagines the means through which life incarnates or makes manifest to itself the very essence of its being. In Seeing the Invisible Henry extends his philosophy, as material phenomenology, to the aesthetic, reappraising abstract art in terms of affectivity, emotional life and the essential communication that takes place between the community and the artwork at the level of sensibility. Scott Davidson's clear and timely translation provides the reader with both a revolutionary take on twentieth century art and a gateway into the thought of one of the leading French philosophers of the past fifty years.  Dr Michael O'Sullivan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
zlib_text: SEEING THE INVISIBLE
  
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  SEEING THE INVISIBLE
  On Kandinsky
  Michel Henry
  Translated by Scott Davidson
  
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  Originally published in French as Voir l’invisible © Éditions François Bourin 1988.
  Reissued © Presses Universitaires de France 2005
  This book is supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as part of the Burgess
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