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Introduction to a phenomenology of life / Renaud Barbaras and translated by Leonard Lawlor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barbaras, Renaud, author.
- Series:
- Studies in Continental thought.
- Studies in Continental thought
- Standardized Title:
- Introduction a une phenomenologie de la vie. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Phenomenology.
- Life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (383 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "In Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life, renowned French philosopher Renaud Barbaras aims to construct the basis for a phenomenology of life. Called an introduction because it has to deal with philosophical limits and presuppositions, it is much more, as Barbaras investigates life in its phenomenological senses, approached through the duality of its intransitive and transitive senses. Originally published in French (Introduction à une phenomenologie de la vie) Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life first defines the problem of life phenomenologically, then studies the failures of the phenomenological movement to adequately think about life, and finally elaborates a new, original, and productive approach to the problem. He engages "object-oriented" philosophies with this approach and concludes that they are far more phenomenological than previously believed. Combining original interpretations and expert readings of philosophers such as Kant and Husserl and contemporary thinkers such as Bergson, Badiou, and Deleuze, Barbaras offers here a powerful and important contribution to phenomenology and continental thought"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Translator's Note
- Introduction: Phenomenology and Life
- The Correlational A Priori and the Ontological Meaning of the Subject
- The Original Status of Being-Alive
- Part 1. The Divisions of Life
- 1.1. Exteriority and Immanence
- Life as It Is Known
- Life as It Is Lived
- Auto-Affection, Life, and Flesh
- The Problem of the Body
- 1.2. Existence and Incarnation
- The Privative Approach to Life
- The Intramundanity of Dasein
- The Problem of Privative Zoology
- Heidegger and Metaphysical Humanism
- Incarnate Life
- One's Own Body
- Flesh and Chiasm
- 1.3. The Division of Movement
- The Structure of Appearing and the Incarnation of Dasein
- Super-Objectivity and Hyper-Belonging-To
- The Ontological Meaning of the Ego
- Dynamic Phenomenology
- Movement and the Body of Existence
- Perception and Movement
- The Division of the Movements
- Conclusion: The Epoche of Death
- Life and Existence
- The Ontology of Death
- Part 2. Life and Exteriority
- Introduction: The Failure of Bergsonism
- Life and Consciousness
- The Two Meanings of Life
- Human Life
- 2.1. The Absolute Domains of Survey
- The Three Paths to Gaining Access to Absolute Surfaces
- The Phenomenal Path
- The Biological and Metaphysical Paths
- Primary Consciousness and Secondary Consciousness
- The Problem of Perceptual Intentionality
- Consciousness and Extension
- 2.2. Metabolism
- Vital Activity
- Methodological Anthropocentrism and Ontological Biocentrism
- Metabolism and Interiority
- Exteriority and Sensibility
- The Problem of Exteriority
- Need and Exteriority
- The Ontological Irreducibility of Movement
- Desire, Distance, and Movement
- Toward a Privative Botany
- Life and Nonbeing
- 2.3. Toward a Privative Anthropology
- Consciousness as the Limitation of Life
- Rilke's Perspective
- Originary Repression
- Part 3. Life and Desire
- 3.1. Desire as the Essence of Being-Alive
- Introduction
- The Experience That We Are
- Experience as Freedom
- Freedom as the Condition of Experience
- Desire
- Life and Desire
- Desire and Need
- Metaphysical Desire
- Desire and Affectivity
- 3.2. Desire and the Correlation
- The Lack of the Subject
- The Search for Oneself in the Other
- The Lacking Subject and the Subjective Lack
- The Institution of Proximity
- The Problem of the Correlation
- The Meaning of Proximity
- Touch and Vision
- The Primordiality of Touch
- The Experience of the Limit
- The Interweaving of Vision and Touch
- 3.3. The Subject and the World
- Perception and the Incompleteness of Being
- Desire and Givenness through Profiles
- World, Space, and Time
- The Movement of Life
- The Instability of the Phenomenon
- The Movement of Desire
- Conclusion
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253058157
- 0253058155
- 9780253058188
- 025305818X
- OCLC:
- 1260169820
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