Crossover Queries : Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others / Edith Wyschogrod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyschogrod, Edith, Author.

Contributor:

Caputo, John D., Contributor.

Raschke, Carl, Contributor.

Wyschogrod, Edith, Contributor.

Series:

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (592 p.) : 7 Illustrations, black and white

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9132-4

OCLC:

1350687893