Desire and Distance : Introduction to a Phenomenology of Perception / Renaud Barbaras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbaras, Renaud, Author.

Contributor:

Milan, Paul B.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present.

Cultural Memory in the Present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy).

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages).

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Desire and Distance constitutes an important new departure in contemporary phenomenological thought, a rethinking and critique of basic philosophical positions concerning the concept of perception presented by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, though it departs in significant and original ways from their work. Barbaras's overall goal is to develop a philosophy of what "life" is—one that would do justice to the question of embodiment and its role in perception and the formation of the human subject. Barbaras posits that desire and distance inform the concept of "life." Levinas identified a similar structure in Descartes's notion of the infinite. For Barbaras, desire and distance are anchored not in meaning, but in a rethinking of the philosophy of biology and, in consequence, cosmology. Barbaras elaborates and extends the formal structure of desire and distance by drawing on motifs as yet unexplored in the French phenomenological tradition, especially the notions of "life" and the "life-world," which are prominent in the later Husserl but also appear in non-phenomenological thinkers such as Bergson. Barbaras then filters these notions (especially "life") through Merleau-Ponty.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Problem of Perception

1. A Critique of Transcendental Phenomenology

2. Phenomenological Reduction as Critique of Nothingness

3. The Three Moments of Appearance

4. Perception and Living Movement

5. Desire as the Essence of Subjectivity

Conclusion

Author’s Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804788137

0804788138

OCLC:

1178770190