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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... social , political , and cultural circum- stances that rendered possible this unmaking of worlds . Yet does ob- servation , in this context , mean a view from nowhere ? And is the view from nowhere as the adoption of objectivity , a ...
... social peace , peace among states . Violence is not a failure of social agreement but rather the result of a collapse of atten- tiveness to the command of alterity , a command that is an excess of sociality , " a proximity as the ...
... social consensus but rather as an imperative that issues from another human being in her or his specificity . The other- ness of the other person cannot be sublated and is construed as a species of an - iconic transcendence , which ...
... ( autrui ) , a past or archaic time that is irrecover- able , and peace that issues from a social existence grounded in hospitality , welcoming the other . The insistence upon divine incorporeality is continued in medieval Christian 32 God.
... social role , or to Deleuze's account of the face as mechanism and icon of imperialis- tic force , for Levinas the face of the other is always given as a refusal to be contained in images or concepts . In a culture where one is as ...
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