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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... INFINITE xi xv 1 1 Intending Transcendence : Desiring God 13 2 Corporeality and the Glory of the Infinite in the Philosophy of Levinas 29 3 Postmodern Saintliness : Ecstasy and Altruism 45 4 Levinas and Hillel's Questions 61 5 ...
... Infinite in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas , " in Incarnation , Proceedings of the Conference of the Instituto di Studi Filosofici Enrico Castelli , 1998 , vol . 63 , nos . 1-3 , 113-26 . Chapter 3 appeared as portions of Chapter 8 ...
... infinite ? Are we not compelled to inquire " how can Auschwitz , something thought from the outside . . . ( an sich ) ... infinite that ends as an Absolute all - encompassing totality and , on the other , what Hegel calls the " bad ...
... have tried not to draw a map that , in postmodern language , precedes the territory but rather to move from island to island in an archipelago of concepts . God : Desiring the Infinite PART I The Reason why 10 Introduction.
Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others Edith Wyschogrod. God : Desiring the Infinite PART I The Reason why God has no name , or is. IV.
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