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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... writes : At the basis of the whole modern view of the world lies the illu- sion that the so - called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena.2 People stop short at Natural Laws as at something unassailable as did the ...
... writes : " The physical world as it is supposed to be in itself contains ... nothing that can appear to a particular point of view . Whatever it contains can be apprehended by a general rational consciousness that gets its point of view ...
... writes : The presence [ of the other ] consists in divesting himself of the form which nevertheless manifests him . His manifestation is a surplus beyond the inevitable paralysis of manifestation . It is that which expresses the formula ...
... writes : “ The ulti- mate meaning of being [ Sinn des Seins ] is the Good , and that is the divine activity toward which the All of divine action is directed . . . . God as will of the Good is ultimate reality . Corporeality and the ...
... writes : " The human or the interhuman intrigue ... is the necessary ' mise en scène ' from which ... abstractions are detached in the said of words and propositions ... an intrigue [ that is ] the fabric of ultimate intelligibility ...
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