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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... requires the greatest strength . . . . It wins its truth only when in utter dismember- ment it finds itself . " 8 Unlike an individual who maintains that " some- thing is nothing or that a proposition is false , and then having done ...
... requires no real being outside itself , thereby vitiating the possibility of an exteriority that transcends the subject . As a philosophy of consciousness , phenomenology must sublate tran- scendence , for if it failed to do so , it ...
... require the support of actual beings in order to exist , " it might indeed require being sustained by another being and ... requires nothing other than itself to exist . It could be argued that , in a Husserlian context , the phrase ac ...
... requires the imaginative as well as the logical faculty , even if the rational faculty predominates . More important is Maimonides ' turn to the theme of the face in his account of the ex- pression " God's face , " given that the face ...
... requires explanation . Rather than appealing to voice or audition , as does Maimonides , Aquinas turns to the mind's eye . For Aquinas , both sensible and intellectual vision require a certain inwardization , " the power of sight and ...
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