Philosophies of Difference: “The Phenomenology of Desire” Prof. Miguel de Beistegui Dr Marjorie Gracieuse S2.56 – [email protected] S2.52 [email protected]

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 Husserl’s 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 Other’s 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, Mouvement and Desire”, article available at http://www.ingentaconnect.com//content/brill/rip/2008/00000038/00000001/art00001

Week 9: Lecture: Desire beyond ? 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, Aufsätze 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) Bégout, Bruce. “Problèmes d’une phénomenologie de la sexualité. Intentionnalité pulsionnelle et pulsion sexuelle chez Husserl,” in Phénoménologie et psychanalyse. Edited by J. C. Beaune. Champ Vallon, 1998, p. 41-59. Lee, Nam-In. Edmund Husserls Phänomenologie der Instinkte. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 1993. ------. “’s 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 Phänomenologie von Trieb und Lust bei Husserl », in Dieter Lohmar and Dirk Fonfara (eds.), Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven der Phänomenologie, Dordrecht, Springer, 2006, p. 38-53. Rolf Kühn, Husserls Begriff der Passivität. Zur Kritik der passiven Synthesis in der Genetischen Phänomenologie, Freiburg, Alber Verlag, 1998, especially Chapter 10 (« Trieb- und Instinktintentionalität »).

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 Phénoménologiques. Paris: Presses Universitaires de , 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 Phénoménologiques. 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 ' 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 désir et la distance. Introduction à une phénomenologie de la perception. Paris: Vrin, 1999. Chapter 5. ------. Introduction à une phénoménologie 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.