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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... body because it is the body that is prey to violence . Must the other not , in some sense , be her or his body in the manner of not being it , as Sartre might have put it ? Thus , for Levinas , the body of the other is flesh and blood ...
... body the result of this transformation . Recall that , for Aquinas , divine presence is known by intellect " on the sight of and through corporeal things , " as a result both of " the perspicacity of intellect " and from " the divine ...
... body as a whole is both sensorium and medium for aesthetic expression . I have argued that Deleuze and Guattari's antinomianism derives from an account of desiring production that conceals a metaphysical monism beneath the differential ...
... body without organs , a body without alterity which , on the one hand , is declared to be nontotalizable but , on the other , is the hypostatic pleroma of jouissance . This homogeneity is at- tested in her treatment of the other , that ...
... body as eager drive con- fronted with the law's harshness ; on the other , it points to a sub- dued body , a body that is pneumatic since it is spiritual , completely submersed into divine speech in order to become beauty and love ...
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Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others Edith Wyschogrod No preview available - 2006 |