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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... consciousness that gets its point of view from whatever perceptual point of view it happens to view the world from . " 12 In ethics as in metaphysics , the attraction of objectivity may lead one to prefer seeing and acting from a ...
... consciousness , as the object of an intention , express both a funda- mental category mistake and an ineradicable hope . The second moment is that of nihilatory force exerted in the inter- est of exterminating whole peoples to whom ...
... consciousness and of reality , Husserl de- clares . It is a virtual given of Husserl's Ideas that the spatiotemporal world has a merely secondary or relative sense in that it exists as being for a consciousness that posits it , that the ...
... consciousness , the way is open for a Levinasian ethics of transcendence . Phenomenology's God It is by now a truism of transcendental phenomenology that con- sciousness is intentional , that it points toward objects . A conscious ...
... consciousness ( Ideas , 141 ) . Far from spawning meaningless agglomerations , consciousness constitutes objective unities in every region of being . The modalities of consciousness - perceiving , think- ing , willing , wishing , and ...
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