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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... Ideas MaA MT OB OG OS Richard Dawkins . The Extended Phenotype : The Gene as the Unit of Selection . Oxford : W. H. Freeman and Company , 1982 . Martin Heidegger . The Fundamental Concepts of Meta- physics : World , Finitude , Solitude ...
... 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 that would eventuate in a new moment ...
... ( Ideas , 139 , emphasis in original ) . A veritable abyss sep- arates the meanings of consciousness and of reality , Husserl de- clares . It is a virtual given of Husserl's Ideas that the spatiotemporal world has a merely secondary or ...
... ( Ideas , 100 ) . Nor should bracketing be identified with the abstractions generated by the theoretical inquiries of natural science , in that such investigations transpire within the sphere of the natural attitude . The phenomeno ...
Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others Edith Wyschogrod. Ideas I. In a remarkable passage , Husserl asserts that God's absolute- ness is different from that of absolute consciousness ( Ideas , 174 ) . Ru- dolf Boehm ...
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