{"product_id":"desire-and-distance-9780804746458","title":"Desire and Distance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesire and Distance\u003c\/i\u003e 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 isone 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbaras 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 l\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDesire and Distance\u003c\/i\u003e 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' book is remarkable.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis\u003cbr\u003e\"As an attempt to grasp the specificity of the phenomenon as it comes to be, that of the world within which it appears, and that of the subject to whom it becomes apparent, \u003ci\u003eDesire and Distance\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious, dense, rigorously argued work of philosophy in the phenomenological tradition, certainly amongst the most original of recent years.\" —\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy in Review\/Comptes Rendus philosophiques\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Acknowledgments\tiii  @toc2:Introduction: The Problem of Perception\t000  1. A Critique of Transcendental Phenomenology\t000  2. Phenomenological Reduction as Critique of Nothingness  \t000  3. The Three Moments of Appearance\t000  4. Perception and Living Movement\t000  5. Desire as the Essence of Subjectivity\t000  Conclusion\t000  Author's Afterword\t000  @toc4:Notes\t000  Bibliography\t000  Index of Names\t000\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405553508695,"sku":"9780804746458","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804746458.jpg?v=1730492809","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/desire-and-distance-9780804746458","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}