| Desire and Distance: Introduction to a Phenomenology of Perception Contributor(s): Barbaras, Renaud (Author), Milan, Paul B. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0804746443 ISBN-13: 9780804746441 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: " Desire and Distance is based on recent research and presents new ideas on the problem of perception-- ideas that are quite enticing. Barbaras is the world' s leading Merleau-Ponty scholar, but what makes this book remarkable and philosophically important is that Barbaras distances himself from Merleau-Ponty and develops his own set of concepts with a high level of originality. In my opinion, Barbaras' s book is remarkable." -- Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Philosophy | Epistemology |
| Dewey: 121.34 |
| LCCN: 2005017334 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.3" W x 9.32" (0.83 lbs) 169 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
