Philosophical Works on “Distance” / “Difference”

Philosophical Works on “Distance” / “Difference”

  1. Being Singular Plural — Jean-Luc Nancy (Stanford University Press, 2000)

    Nancy reframes ontology as being-with: existence is originally co-existence. Community is not founded on a single essence but on the relations and intervals between singular beings. Identity is sustained by openness to others rather than by self-sameness.

  2. Being and Event — Alain Badiou (Continuum, orig. 1988; Eng. 2005)

    Badiou advances a “mathematical ontology,” equating mathematics with ontology through set theory. Existence is presented as multiplicity; concepts like belonging, inclusion, and the infinite articulate how difference structures being. He also theorizes the genesis of truth via the transformative “event.”

  3. Logics of Worlds — Alain Badiou (Continuum, orig. 2006; Eng. 2009)

    A sequel to Being and Event, introducing topos and category-theoretic ideas to describe how beings appear in worlds. Beyond ontology (set theory), Badiou models the relational configurations through which entities show themselves—recasting distance and difference as world-specific logics of appearance.

  4. Difference and Repetition — Gilles Deleuze (Columbia University Press, orig. 1968; Eng. 1994)

    Deleuze overturns identity-based philosophy by asserting the primacy of difference. Using rigorous metaphysical argument and mathematical metaphors (e.g., differential calculus, temporal multiplicities), he presents difference and repetition as creative, productive forces underlying thought and being.

  5. Desire and Distance: Introduction to a Phenomenology of Perception — Renaud Barbaras (Stanford University Press, 2005)

    Extending French phenomenology, Barbaras reconceives life through the twin notions of desire and distance. Building on Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, he argues that the lived body and its world arise through a dynamic gap—distance—as the generative condition of perception and subjectivity.

  6. The Mark of the Sacred — Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Stanford University Press, orig. 2008; Eng. 2013)

    From philosophical anthropology, Dupuy examines how distinctions of the sacred create protective boundaries (distances) that curb violence. Engaging Weber, Durkheim, Mauss, and Girard, he argues that modernity’s erasure of the sacred’s “mark” destabilizes our political, economic, and scientific orders.

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