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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... Language , Thought . Trans . Albert Hofstadter . New York : Harper and Row , 1971 . Willard Van Orman Quine . " The Problem of Mean- ing in Linguistics , " in FLPV , 47-64 . Emmanuel Levinas . Proper Names . Trans . Michael B. Smith ...
... languages of technology and information coalesce to form an overarching language , which ( in the manner of Derrida Introduction □ 7.
... 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 functions as the ultimate ...
... language , the technoscientific discourse that endows those who " know " with power . I would argue further that the longing for en- hanced power is manifested in the general culture in the superheroes embodied in robots and action ...
... language that is adequate to the phenomenological description of the fact - world but is unable to convey in predicative language the being beyond being of God . The being of such an Absolute has traditionally been con- veyed in a ...
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