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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... understanding of negatives cannot be resolved by turn- ing to positivism or linguistic analysis . There are few who today would hold to the narrow view that to be is to be the value of a vari- able . The limitations of defining analysis ...
... understanding . " Death , if that is what we want to call this non - actuality , is of all things the most dreadful and to hold fast to what is dead requires the greatest strength . . . . It wins its truth only when in utter dismember ...
... understanding of historical reason as thus amended entail the unthinkable conclusion that the losses of nadir events could morph into positive outcomes , just as machines trans- form loss ? Derrida's comment might be viewed as ...
... understanding as exhibited in linguistic signs provides a necessary precondition for such apprehension . Levinas will be shown to have appropriated the an - iconicity of this tradition , while departing from its claims that insight into ...
... understanding of the historical route taken by abjection . Thus , she maintains , the move from a naive and unmedi- ated paganism , matrilinear in character , is succeeded by biblical Ju- daism's fear of a matrilineal power that could ...
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Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others Edith Wyschogrod No preview available - 2006 |