Crossover Queries : Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others / Edith Wyschogrod.
Wyschogrod, Edith, author.; Caputo, John D., contributor.; Raschke, Carl, contributor.; Wyschogrod, Edith, contributor.
2022
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Title Crossover Queries : Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others / Edith Wyschogrod.
Author Wyschogrod, Edith, author.
ISBN 9780823291328
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291328
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2006
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (592 p.) : 7 Illustrations, black and white
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823291328 doi
Summary 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 Buddhist metaphysics, Wyschogrod's work opens radically new vistas while remaining mindful that the philosopher stands within and is responsible to a philosophical legacy conditioned by the negative. 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 of biological research and cultural images of mechanized and robotic bodies, she shows how they contest the body as lived in ordinary experience. "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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Added Author Caputo, John D., contributor.
Raschke, Carl, contributor.
Wyschogrod, Edith, contributor.
Series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: GOD: DESIRING THE INFINITE
1 Intending Transcendence: Desiring God
2 Corporeality and the Glory of the Infinite in the Philosophy of Levinas
3 Postmodern Saintliness: Ecstasy and Altruism
4 Levinas and Hillel's Questions
5 Recontextualizing the Ontological Argument: A Lacanian Analysis
PART II Training Bodies: Pedagogies of Pain
6 Asceticism as Willed Corporeality: Body in Foucault and Heidegger
7 Blind Man Seeing: From Chiasm to Hyperreality
8 The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Héloïse: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics
9 From the Death of the Word to the Rise of the Image in the Choreography of Merce Cunningham
PART III Bodies: Subject or Code?
10 Empathy and Sympathy as Tactile Encounter
11 Levinas's Other and the Culture of the Co
12 From Neo-Platonism to Souls in Silico: Quests for Immortality ''
PART IV Nihilation and the Ethics of Alterity
13 The Semantic Spaces of Terror: A Theological Response
14 The Warring Logics of Genocide
15 Incursions of Alterity: The Double Bind of Obligation
16 Memory, History, Revelation: Writing the Dead Other
17 Exemplary Individuals: Toward a Phenomenological Ethics
PART V Conversations
18 Interview with Emmanuel Levinas
19 Postmodernism and the Desire for God: An E-mail Exchange
20 Heterological History A Conversation
PART VI The Art in Ethics
21 Between Swooners and Cynics: The Art of Envisioning God
22 Facts, Fiction, Ficciones: Truth in the Study of Religion
23 Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands: Specters in Arnold Schoenberg's Opera Moses and Aron
24 Killing the Cat: Sacrifice and Beauty in Genet and Mishima
25 The Art in Ethics: Aesthetics, Objectivity, and Alterity in the Philosophy of Levinas
PART VII Comparing Philosophies
26 The Moral Self: Levinas and Hermann Cohen
27 Autochthony and Welcome: Discourses of Exile in Derrida and Levinas
28 Time and Nonbeing in Derrida and Quine
29 The Logic of Artifactual Existents: John Dewey and Claude Le´vi-Strauss
30 The Mathematical Model in Plato and Some Surrogates in a Jain Theory of Knowledge
31 Soft Nominalism in Quine and the School of Dignāga
32 Fear of Primitives, Primitive Fears: Anthropology in the Philosophies of Heidegger and Levinas
Notes
Index

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