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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... given not as a phenomenon but as language , as a proscription against violence and , more radically , as a willingness to substitute oneself for another even in extreme situations where the life of an- other is at stake . Alterity ...
... 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 field of physical na- ture is to be " switched off , " and that ...
... given as a unity accompa- nying all intraworldly presentations , a transcendence in immanence , he contends in Section 58 ( Ideas , 157-60 ) . In contrast to the pure Ego , through which thought takes place and which radiates through ...
... given way to axiology ? Far from surrendering the primacy of value , in a remark in the Nachlass Husserl subordinates ontology to the Good , maintaining : " The ultimate meaning of being [ Sinn des Seins ] is the Good , and that is the ...
... given , offers itself to me . In gaining access to it , I maintain myself within the same " ( TI , 194 ) . Consciousness's reduction of alterity to the same reflects the dominance of thought as grounded in visibility that , in ...
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Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others Edith Wyschogrod No preview available - 2006 |