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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... identity of the victim without having undergone her or his suffering . Problematic in still another sense is the historian's assumption through empathy of the identity of those who commit or facilitate committing acts of mass extermina ...
... identity as a philosophy of the subject . Although , in the same note in Section 51 , Husserl seems unable to surrender the notion that the Absolute is " a research - domain proper to phenomenology " ( Ideas , 143 ) , his Intending ...
... identity that cannot be conferred . But is not the " desire of God " a yearning for the un- nameable , a desire for a kenosis that remains impossible , for a tran- scendence that can only be experienced as a failed immanence ...
... identity of the I envelops the alterity of the object , which becomes precisely a con- tent " ( ibid . , 194 ) , nor can the other's alterity be defined in terms of attributes that differ from one's own , for such comparison submerges ...
... identity of the subject , " says Levinas , " is flushed out without being able to slip away " ( OB , 144 ) . The one who , in self - giving , says to the other , " Here I am , " placing her / himself at the other's disposal , bears ...
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