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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... function is the illustration of an idea , and a " model , " which names " a kind of ' para - experience , ' " in which dialectics would encounter a kind of " non - negotiable negative " that would preclude the negation of a negative ...
... functions as the ultimate , transcendental condition of ethics . Although the other person in her or his otherness functions as the transcendental condition of ethics , I shall use the lower case o when the referent is the human other ...
... function as influences and in- struments of analysis . Illustration : Visitors strolling through Christo and Jean - Claude Gates exhibit in Central Park , New York . Photograph by Meggie Wyschogrod . Intending Transcendence Desiring God ...
... function of the Other as one's teacher . It is as elevation that the other looms over the self , mandating not only that the self assume responsibility for the other but that it surrender its interests , including 24 God.
... function as a hypostatic plane of libidinal satisfaction , not seamless yet without alterity . I have argued that the reverse Platonism of Deleuze attempts to maintain difference while sublating the other . Where lack or negation ...
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Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others Edith Wyschogrod No preview available - 2006 |