Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's OthersFordham Univ Press, 2006 - 566 頁 Exploring 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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... persons in a minimum amount of time or , by contrast , a reliance upon simple weapons de- ployed against populations in impoverished areas as well as the de- struction , in such regions , of the conditions that could sustain life - may ...
... person . As described in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas , the other per- son is given not as a phenomenon but as language , as a proscription against violence and , more radically , as a willingness to substitute oneself for another ...
... person " tears me away from my hypostasis " ( EN , 85-86 ) . The rela- tion of an I to another renders possible an awakening that is a " sober- ing up , " in which the I is freed from its everyday indolence . Yet Levinas maintains that ...
... of faciality and by converting visibility into discourse . There is no doubt that the principal meaning of the word panim ( " face " ) is " the presence and existence of a person . " When Moses is said Intending Transcendence 25.
... person receiving attention [ panim ] " ( Isa . 3 : 3 ) . This signification is retained in the blessing " The Lord turns his face to thee [ i.e. , lets his Providence accompany thee ] and gives thee peace . " 30 This metonymic ...