Philosophy and Desire

Philosophy and Desire , the seventh book in the well-known Continental Philosophy series, examines questions of desire--desire for another person, desire for happiness, desire for knowledge, desire for a better world, desire for the impossible, desire in text, desire in language and desire for desire itself. The theme of desire is explored through readings of contemporary figures such as Merleau-Ponty, Bataille, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Levinas, Irigaray, Barthes, Derrida, and Derrida. A hot, timely topic in philosophy today Expands the contemporary debates 1. Introduction, Hugh J. Silverman; Part I Erotic Practices/Erotic Transgressions; 2. Aletheia, Poiesis, and Eros: Truth and Untruth in the Poetic Construction of Love, M. C. Dillon; 3. Bataille’s Eroticism, Now: From Transgression to Insidious Sorcery, Marc J. LaFountain; Part II Desire for the Other: Levinas; 4. The (Non)Logic of Desire and War: Hegel and Levinas, Brian Schroeder; 5. Inscribing the “Sites” of Desire in Levinas, Bettina G. Bergo; Part III Desiring Subjectivity: Sartre and De Beauvoir; 6. Sartre: Desiring the Impossible, Christina Howells; 7. Simone De Beauvoir’s Desire to Express La Joie D’Exister, Eleanore Holveck; Part IV Reading Feminine Desire: Irigaray; 8. Situating Irigaray, Simon Patrick Walter; 9. Irigaray’s Discourse on Feminine Desire: Literalist and Strategic Readings, Dorothy Leland; Part V Writing Desire: Barthes and Derrida; ch0010 A Lover’s Reply (To Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse), Robert C. Solomon; 11. In this Text Where I Never Am: Discourses of Desire in Derrida, Nancy J. Holland; Part VI Productive Desire: Deleuze and Guattari; 12. Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze: An Other Discourse of Desire, Alan D. Schrift; 13. Deleuze and Guattari: Flows of Desire and the Body, Dorothea E. Olkowski;