Abstract
Marc Richir is one of the most important phenomenologists of his generation. These conversations with Sacha Carlson are an opportunity to revisit his career and intellectual development.
He explains for the first time the initial sources of his thought: Descartes, Husserl, M. Loreau, Derrida, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fichte, etc.
In the course of the discussion, he also takes up the main themes of his work, namely the phenomenon as "nothing but the phenomenon," the simulacrum, the hyperbolic phenomenological epoch, the sublime, affectivity, architectonics, the symbolic institution, etc. Without sacrificing its depth to vulgarization, but remaining faithful to the requirement of philosophical dialogue which invites us to follow the analysis thanks to concrete examples, these conversations are not only a recapitulation of the work and its fundamental moments, but also a meditation in the present of the spoken word, where concrete analyses are presented, during which the phenomenologist also explains its relationship with other fields of research, such as anthropology, psychoanalysis, mathematics, physics, art, politics and history.