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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... question of teleology could be seen as sup- plying the impetus to transcend phenomenological reflection upon the nature of fact and instead to account for the order of the fact- world by positing its grounding in transcendence in what ...
... question can be pursued by examining Derrida's account of God's name , an issue of particular interest to him in that terms such as différance and trace intrinsic to his own work have been identified ( erroneously , he believes ) with ...
... question the multiple manifestations of immanence . In the quest for that which remains beyond experience , Levinas is drawn into language that is replete with traditional an - iconic reso- nances . Critical of phenomenology's ...
... question of what is to count as philosophy . In his first essay on Levinas , " Vio- lence and Metaphysics , " Derrida comments : The complicity between empiricism and metaphysics [ here meaning the rationalist and idealist traditions ] ...
... question of whether the governing principle of that order can be derived from this immanent ordering itself or must instead be determined by an exterior Absolute . World - being , Husserl contends , must be relative to something more ...
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Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others Edith Wyschogrod No preview available - 2006 |