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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... Experience . New York : Minton , Balch , 1934 . The Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan . Trans . Judah Goldin . Yale Judaica Series , vol . 10. New Haven : Yale University Press , 1955 . Emmanuel Levinas . Alterity and Transcendence ...
... Experience and Nature . Chicago : Univer- sity of Chicago Press , 1929 . Jacques Lacan . Écrits : A Selection . Trans . Alan Sheri- dan . New York : W. W. Norton , 1977 . Emmanuel Levinas . Existence and Existents . Trans . Al- phonso ...
... experience can- not be dismissed , but his disclaimer may not simply be applied , muta- tis mutandis , to the rapidly expanding interests of the sciences . What is called for is a reenvisioning of the negative , of the meaning of being ...
... experience is transformed into rela- tions of utility and number . 15 In each case , the historian or observer may attempt to determine the social , political , and cultural circum- stances that rendered possible this unmaking of worlds ...
... experience . In " Incursions of Alterity : The Double Bind of Obliga- tion , " however , I argue that a ... experiences pain . In the absence of sensate embodiment , of visceral encounters with the other , is the subject not consigned to ...
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