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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... function of the Other as one's teacher . It is as elevation that the other looms over the self , mandating not only that the self assume responsibility for the other but that it surrender its interests , including 24 God.
... responsibility for the other to the point of being willing to assume the perils of an- other's life , to become hostage for or to substitute oneself for that other . The submissiveness of the subject becomes , for Levinas , the ...
... responsibility for her or him . Ethics thus understood is prior to ontology , which , for Levinas , is bound up with the arena of freedom in which violence originates , that of history and the state . In what follows , I shall consider ...
... responsibility for another . 10 Transcending the World Whereas the phenomenological strategies just depicted may be useful in describing the face that both is and is not a phenomenon , is and is not an epiphany , do these strategies ...
... responsibility . But the passive subject runs the risk of pride in its very passivity , so that passivity reverses itself and becomes active . Thus the subject must remain vigilant , redouble its passivity such that no act could arise ...