Abstract
The article deals with the relationship between art and religion in the
philosophy of the French phenomenologist, Michel Henry. Henry develops a phi-
losophy of art by interpreting Kandinsky’s theory of art on the basis of his own
phenomenology of life. Art is an expression of life or subjectivity. By life or subjec-
tivity, Henry means a passive self-affection of the subject on this side of intentional
self-reference. According to Henry, self-affection is only possible if, in relating to
himself, the individual relates at the same time to absolute life. Religion is for
Henry this link of the individual to absolute life. By being an expression of life, art
is therefore at the same time an expression of religion.