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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... become theological languages in which the thought of Husserl , Heidegger , Derrida , Lacan , de Certeau , and Levinas can function as influences and in- struments of analysis . Illustration : Visitors strolling through Christo and Jean ...
... become an artifact of con- sciousness ? Husserl's description of consciousness as absolute sug- gests that consciousness requires no real being outside itself , thereby vitiating the possibility of an exteriority that transcends the ...
... become the one who desires , its subject , or the one desired , the object of God's love . In what could be envisaged as a gloss on the ambiguity of inside and outside as depicted in the Clemente work described earlier , the desire of ...
... become hostage for or to substitute oneself for that other . The submissiveness of the subject becomes , for Levinas , the condition of an ethics that has been theologized and a theology that has been ethicized . Thus , for Levinas ...
... of requirement and obligation , the absolutely archaic time of the absolutely transcendent . If the time of transcendence is a past that cannot become present , it can be argued that , Corporeality and the Glory of the Infinite □ 41.
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