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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... 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 view that pre- cludes the observer's taking a stand , not itself a ...
... possible to stand inside these events after the fact by appealing to empathy ? To be sure , empathic understanding may be useful as a penultimate strategy , but , at a more primordial level , empathy can be interpreted as an ...
... possible to conclude that absolute con- sciousness is the sole substance and , as such , is analogous to the being of God . There is , however , room for an alternative interpreta- tion . Just as Descartes does not apply the term ...
... possible and real values extending in- definitely , which compels us to ask after the " ground . " ... What concerns us here . . . is that this existence should not only tran- scend the world but obviously also the " absolute ...
... possible an awakening that is a " sober- ing up , " in which the I is freed from its everyday indolence . Yet Levinas maintains that the exploration of the ethical implications of awakening lie outside the scope of Husserlian ...