Topics in 20th Century French Philosophy II: The Phenomenology of Desire Prof. Miguel de Beistegui Dr.

Marjorie Gracieuse S2.56 M.J.Beistegui@warwick.ac.uk S2.52 Marjorie.gracieuse@warwick.ac.uk

Week 1: Lecture: Desire beyond Pleasure Reading: Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, in Beyond the Pleasure Principle and other writings, Penguin Modern Classics, 2003. Week 2: Lecture: The two senses of desire in Husserls Phenomenology Reading: Husserl, Static and Genetic Phenomenological Method (1921), in Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Syntheses: Lectures on Transcendental Logic + Intuition and Representation, Intention and Fulfilment (1893). Week 3: Lecture: Sartre: Desire as lack and intentionality J. P. Sartre, Being and Nothingness, part 2 Immediate structures of the for-itself, page 73 to 95 and The Transcendence of the Ego (New York: Octagon, 1972; orig. published 1936). Week 4: Lecture: The body and the Others: the Sartrian dead-end Being and Nothingness (1943): first attitude towards others: love, language and masochism (pages 364-378) and "second attitude towards others: indifference, desire, hate and sadism" pages 379-413. Week 5: Lecture: Transcendence and metaphysical desire in Levinas Reading: Philosophy and the idea of infinity (1957) in Emmanuel Levinas: Collected Philosophical Papers, translated by A. Lingis. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987. Pages 47-61 and Totality and Infinity (1961) translated by A. Lingis. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1979, pages 33-53. Extension for possible essays/dissertation: Time and the Other (1947) published in Emmanuel Levinas: Time and the Other and additional essays, trans. R.Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1987. Week 6: Lecture: Levinas critique of immanence: facing the Others trace Reading: Totality and Infinity (1961), translated by A. Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969. Pages 109-130. The Trace of the Other (1963) translated by A. Lingis, in Deconstruction in Context, edited by Mark Taylor, 345-359. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Extension for possible essays/dissertation: From the One to the Other: transcendence and Time (1983) in Emmanuel Levinas, Entre Nous Thinking-of-the-Other, translated by M. Smith and B. Harshav, Columbia University Press, 1998.

Week 7: Lecture: Evil and non-erotic Goodness in Levinas Reading: Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence (1974), translated by A. Lingis. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Pages 3-21 and pages 173-187. Transcendence and Evil (1978) translated by A. Lingis, in The Phenomenology of Man and of the Human Condition, edited by A-T. Tymieniecka, Analecta Husserliana 14, 153-165. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1983. Extension for possible essays/dissertation: God and Philosophy (1982), published in Of God who comes to mind, trans. Bettina Bergo, Stanford University Press, 1998. Pages 55-79. Week 8: Lecture: Desire as the fabric of intentionality: Barbaras on the identity between fulfilment and frustration. Reading: Renaud Barbaras, Life and perceptual intentionality, article available at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/rip/2003/00000033/00000001/art00009 and Renaud Barbaras, Life, Movement and Desire, article available at http://www.ingentaconnect.com//content/brill/rip/2008/00000038/00000001/art00001 Week 9: Lecture: Desire beyond perception? Questioning the sense of life as self-limitation Reading: Renaud Barbaras, Desire and Distance: Introduction to a Phenomenology of Perception, Stanford University Press, 2006. Week 10: Conclusion and general discussion

Bibliography:
Primary texts: Husserl, Edmund. Intuition and Representation, Intention and Fulfillment (1893) and Appendices to Psychological Studies for Elementary Logic (1893), in Husserliana, Volume XXII, Aufstze und Rezensionen (1890-1910). Edited by Bernhard Rang. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. Pp. 269-301 and 406-419, respectively. ------. Logical Investigations. Translated by J. N. Findlay. New York: Humanities Press, 1970. Fifth Logical Investigation, 15; sixth Logical Investigation, 13-29. ------. On Static and Genetic Phenomenological Method (1921), in Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Syntheses: Lectures on Transcendental Logic. Translated by Anthony J. Steinbeck. Dordrecht/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp. 624-634. Levinas, Emmanuel. Philosophy and the Idea of Infinity (1957) and Phenomena and Enigma (1965), in Collected Philosophical Papers. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993. Pp. 47-59 and 60-73, respectively. ------. The Trace of the Other (1963), in Deconstruction in Context. Edited by Mark Taylor and translated by Alphonso Lingis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 345-359. ------. Totality and Infinity (1961). Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Transcendence of the Ego. Translated by Forrest Williams and Robert Kirkpatrick. New York: Noonday Press, 1962. ------. Being and Nothingness. Translated by Hazel E. Barnes. New York: Philosophical Library, 1943. Secondary Texts: On Husserl. For a complete chronology of his writings, visit The Husserl Page (http://www.husserlpage.com) Bgout, Bruce. Problmes dune phnomenologie de la sexualit. Intentionnalit pulsionnelle et pulsion sexuelle chez Husserl, in Phnomnologie et psychanalyse. Edited by J. C. Beaune. Champ Vallon, 1998, p. 41-59. Lee, Nam-In. Edmund Husserls Phnomenologie der Instinkte. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 1993. ------. Edmund Husserls Phenomenology of Mood, in Alterity and Facticity: New Perspectives on Husserl. Edited by N. Depraz and D. Zahavi. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 1998, pp. 103-118. R. Bernet, Zur Phnomenologie von Trieb und Lust bei Husserl , in Dieter Lohmar and Dirk Fonfara (eds.), Interdisziplinre Perspektiven der Phnomenologie, Dordrecht, Springer, 2006, p. 38-53. Rolf Khn, Husserls Begriff der Passivitt. Zur Kritik der passiven Synthesis in der Genetischen Phnomenologie, Freiburg, Alber Verlag, 1998, especially Chapter 10 ( Triebund Instinktintentionalitt ). On Sartre. For a good selected bibliography, visit The Jean-Paul Sartre Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre) Bernet, Rudolf. Conscience et existence. Perspectives Phnomnologiques. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004. Part Two, Chapters 1 (Negative consciousness as Drive and Desire) and 3 (Corporeal Existence and the Power of the Gaze). Bernet, Rudolf. Conscience et existence. Perspectives Phnomnologiques. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004. Part Two, Chapters 3 (Corporeal Existence and the Power of the Gaze) and 5 (The Traumatised Subject). Christina Howells: 'Sartre: Desiring the Impossible'. Published in Philosophy and Desire, ed. by H.J Silverman, Routledge, 2000. Pages 85-96. Katherine J. Morris (editor) Sartre on the Body, Palgrave McMillan, 2010. Renaud Barbaras (editor) Sartre: desir et liberte, PUF, 2005. On Levinas. For a full bibiliography, visit The Emmanuel Levinas Web Page (http://home.pacbell.net/atterton/levinas/Primary.htm) Drew Dalton, Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire, Duquesne University Press, 2009. Derrida, Jacques, 'Violence and Metaphysics' in Writing and Difference, translated by Alan Bass, Chicago, Chicago University Press and London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978, pp. 79-153. Also highly recommended: Barbaras, Renaud. Le dsir et la distance. Introduction une phnomenologie de la perception. Paris: Vrin, 1999. Chapter 5. ------. Introduction une phnomnologie de la vie. Paris: Vrin, 2008. Part Three (Life and Desire).

Derrida, Jacques. The Ends of Man, in Margins of Philosophy. Translated, with Additional Notes, by Alan Bass. London: The Harvester Press, 1982.