Desire and Distance: Introduction to a Phenomenology of PerceptionDesire 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