Abstract
The article proposes to study the precise status of Richirʹs ʺCartesianismʺ by confronting it with Spinozaʹs thought. After recalling the main lines of Richirʹs critical reading of Descartes, we will begin by showing how the thought of Spinoza can itself be seen as an alternative that extends Cartesianism while overcoming its difficulties. We will then suggest that the original phenomenology proposed by M. Henry can be interpreted as a revised Spinozism. And finally, we will examine the critic by which Richir opposes Henry as an implicit criticism of any form of Spinozism. This is how the Richirian phenomenology can be understood as a ʺHypercartesianismʺ which opposes equally well classical Cartesianism as well as Spinozism: Substance or Life should be substituted by the ʺphenomenological plurality of worldsʺ, while Subjectivity and Facticity by Interfacticity

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