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.
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