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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... sense is the historian's assumption through empathy of the identity of those who commit or facilitate committing acts of mass extermina- tion , even in the interest of ascertaining what made these acts possible . In " The Semantic ...
... sense the world has for us all , prior to any philosophizing , and obviously gets solely from our experience - a sense which philosophy can un- cover but never alter , and which , because of an essential necessity , not because of our ...
... sense , that in principle nulla ' re ' indiget ad existendum " ( Ideas , 137 , empha- sis in original ) . The Latin phrase originates in Descartes ' definition of substance as that which requires nothing other than itself to exist . It ...
... sense from the transcendent in the sense of the world . ( Ideas , 153 ) It could be argued that , in relating the transcendental absolute to the absolute of consciousness , Husserl simply asserts their discon- nection . Alternatively ...
... sense . An - iconic , ex- posed , vulnerable in its nudity , the face " speaks otherwise " than as a visual or tactile sensation . Nor can the face of the other be defined in terms of attributes that set it apart from the self , since ...
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