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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... already clearly grasped by the early Wittgenstein , who writes : At the basis of the whole modern view of the world lies the illu- sion that the so - called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena.2 People stop short at ...
... already an afterword in that it could not have been written prior to the unfolding of its content , as Derrida has noticed . At the same time , the preface is also a prolegomenon to an always unfinished work , a work in progress . The ...
... already embedded in calculative reason , a model undermined by crit- ics from Wittgenstein to existential and post - structuralist thinkers , including Derrida himself . If the historian or observer is not to evade the analysis of ...
... already ) being for an “ inside , ” as though captured behind the green bars of Clemente's painting , an inside that is " a self - contained system of Being , as a system of Abso- lute Being , into which nothing can penetrate and from ...
Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others Edith Wyschogrod. always already discursive . But a transcendent Absolute that is be- yond consciousness necessitates an apophatic theology that may be disclosed as an unremitting ...
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