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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... BODIES : PEDAGOGIES OF PAIN 6 Asceticism as Willed Corporeality : Body in Foucault and Heidegger 7 Blind Man Seeing : From Chiasm to Hyperreality 95 112 8 The Howl of Oedipus , the Cry of Héloïse vii 7:70.
... body , an ethics of otherness , the com- parison of philosophies , and the relation of art to ethics . Consider first the theological moment as configured in Nietzsche's statement , at once amatory and belligerent : " I love him who ...
... body as described by Husserl and elaborated upon by Merleau - Ponty , a body that is vulnerable and experiences pain . In the absence of sensate embodiment , of visceral encounters with the other , is the subject not consigned to the ...
... body than that of the automa- ton . Geneticist Richard Dawkins explains that , according to a gene's eye view of the body , evolution takes place on behalf not of the or- ganism but rather of its genes . Yet what appears to be the ...
... bodies cannot be noble and that God as the most noble of beings cannot be corporeal . Like Mai- monides , Aquinas ... body after its final renewal . This doubleness and its sublation will be seen in Levinas's account of the face not ...
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