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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... constitutes objective unities in every region of being . The modalities of consciousness - perceiving , think- ing , willing , wishing , and the like - constitute or prefigure “ all possi- bilities and impossibilities of being " ( Ideas ...
... constituting thinglike realities . At the same time , phenomenological method cannot circumvent con- sciousness and still retain its identity as a philosophy of the subject . Although , in the same note in Section 51 , Husserl seems ...
... constitutes an act of primordial violence . As a quest for that which is originary in the knowledge act , phenomenology falls back upon " the substantive , the nameable , the entity and the Same " essential to the construction of truth ...
... constitutes the elementary fact of morality " ( TI , 297 ) . Could it not be objected that the entangle- ment in spatial metaphor renders alterity subject to phenomenologi- cal explication ? Is Levinas not trapped by the language of ...
... constitutes the essence of a thing , whereby the thing is what it is ; the reality of a thing insofar as it is that particular being " ( GP , 13 ) . Thus interpreted , the biblical depiction of a theophanic event is made to conform to ...
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