Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's OthersExploring the risks, ambiguities, and unstable conceptual worlds of contemporary thought, Crossover Queries brings together the wide-ranging writings, across twenty years, of one of our most important philosophers. Ranging from twentieth-century European philosophy--the thought of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas, Janicaud, and others--to novels and artworks, music and dance, from traditional Jewish thought to Jain and Rather than point to a Hegelian dialectic of overcoming negation or to a postmetaphysical exhaustion, Wyschogrod treats negative moments as opening novel spaces for thought. She probes both the desire for God and an ethics grounded in the interests of the other person, seeing these as moments both of crossing over and of negation. Alert to the catastrophes that have marked our times, she exposes the underlying logical structures of nihilatory forces that have been exerted to exterminate whole peoples. Analyzing the negations "Crossover Queries brings together important essays on a remarkable range of topics by one of our most insightful cultural critics. Commenting on philosophical and theological issues that have shaped the recent past as well as scientific and technological questions that will preoccupy us in the near future, Wyschogrod consistently alerts us to the urgency of problems whose importance few recognize. To avoid the challenge these essays pose is to avoid responsibility for a future that appears to be increasingly fragile."--Mark C. Taylor, Columbia University |
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... Philosophy's Others Edith Wyschogrod. EDITH WYSCHOGROD Crossover Queries Dwelling with Negatives , Embodying Philosophy's Others FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York 2006 Copyright © 2006 Fordham University Press All rights reserved .
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... University of Chicago Press , 1990 ) , 231-57 . Chapter 4 appeared as " Emmanuel Levinas and Hillel's Ques- tions , " in Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought , ed . Merold Westphal ( Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1999 ) ...
... University Press , 1995 ) , 16-32 . Chapter 9 appeared as " From the Death of the Word to the Rise of the Image in the Choreography of Merce Cunningham , " in Philoso- phies of Religion , Art , and Creativity , Proceedings of the ...
... University Press , 1999 ) , 245–59 . Chapter 24 appeared as " Killing the Cat : Sacrifice and Beauty in Genet and Mishima , " in Theology and Literature 25 , no . 2 ( 1993 ) : 105-19 . Chapter 25 appeared as " The Art in Ethics ...
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