Desire and Distance

Renaud Barbaras is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsiii @toc2:Introduction: The Problem of Perception000 1. A Critique of Transcendental Phenomenology000 2. Phenomenological Reduction as Critique of Nothingness 000 3. The Three Moments of Appearance000 4. Perception and Living Movement000 5. Desire as the Essence of Subjectivity000 Conclusion000 Author's Afterword000 @toc4:Notes000 Bibliography000 Index of Names000

"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' book is remarkable."—Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis "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, Desire and Distance is an ambitious, dense, rigorously argued work of philosophy in the phenomenological tradition, certainly amongst the most original of recent years." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus philosophiques