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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... fact that machines operate on the principle of loss , whereas speculation is , per impossibile , " a machine that gains . " 18 Would a new understanding of historical reason as thus amended entail the unthinkable conclusion that the ...
... fact leads neither to an eidetic science , to the certainty of an eidos that remains invariant through all of an object's variations , nor to an erotic desire for the Other , but rather to an alterity that is beyond consciousness , the ...
... fact - world , Husserl affirms even at the con- clusion of the Cartesian Meditations that the phenomenological reduc- tion is undertaken in the interest of accounting for the way in which the world is experienced . Thus , he maintains ...
... fact and instead to account for the order of the fact- world by positing its grounding in transcendence in what might be seen as a version of standard teleological arguments.10 A more nuanced reading than either of these presupposes the ...
... 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 description , without which he ...
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