Desire and Distance: Introduction to a Phenomenology of Perception

by Renaud Barbaras

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804746443
• ISBN13: 9780804746441
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"