Qu’est-ce qu’un phénomène? Essai sur le concept de phénoménalité chez Marc Richir

This paper in an attempt to study the concept of phenomenality is the work of Marc Richir. This concept could be characterized as founding a permanent phenomenological research of what happens in the appearing of phenomena and makes them possible. If it is true that a phenomenon in Husserl is always a phenomenon of something, of an objectity, and that a phenomenon is given in the transcendental reduction in its correlation with the intentional consciousness, then Richir shows the need of a radicalization of the transcendental reduction because the appearing as such, different from the appearing of objects, is much more than that and because this pre-intentional appearing as such, “nothing other than phenomenon”, is what makes all consciousness possible and concrete. To show briefly this aspect is the aim of the first parts of the present paper. The research on the pre-objectifying levels of the phenomenality as a project of the early work by Richir is in the last twenty years besides other things fulfilled by the extended exploration of the fantasy and affectivity on the one hand, and by some reflections on the method of such a radicalized transcendental inquiry on the other hand. This paper tries to resume briefly this second point by some reflections on the method.