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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... gives way to the pathos of denial , to a refusal of access to the transcendent other , the ultimate source of joy . Efforts to show what cannot be said in phenomenological terms as a content of consciousness , as the object of an ...
... give way to dis- course , which now provides the warranty not only for individual ac- tions but for social peace , peace among states . Violence is not a failure of social agreement but rather the result of a collapse of atten- tiveness ...
... gives thee peace . " 30 This metonymic dissemination of panim as signifying unme- diated encounter , archaic time , a past that is irrecoverable , peace as the outcome of attention and regard for the person , expands the mul- tiple ...
... gives thee peace ' " ( GP , 53 ) . We shall see that the metonymic expansion of panim as signifying unmediated encounter , archaic time , and peace as the outcome of attention and regard for the person wend their way into Levinas's text ...
... " nothing can so profoundly solicit the Greek logos - philosophy - than the irruption of the totally- other . " Thus there is no bypassing the logocentrism of philosophy . In the quest for that which both gives itself phenomenally 34 God.
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