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

By:

Wyschogrod, Edith

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780823247646

Subject(s):

Philosophy, Modern

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Electronic books.

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B804 -- .W97 2006eb

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Contents:

Intro -- Crossover Queries -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: God: Desiring the Infinite -- Chapter 1: Intending Transcendence -- Chapter 2: Corporeality and the Glory of the Infinite inthe Philosophy of Levinas -- Chpater 3: Postmodern Saintliness -- Chapter 4: Levinas and Hillel's Questions -- Chapter 5: Recontextualizing the OntologicalArgument: A Lacanian Analysis -- Part II: Training Bodies: Pedagogies of Pain -- Chapter 6: Asceticism as Willed Corporeality -- Chapter 7: Blind Man Seeing -- Chapter 8: The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Heloise -- Chapter 9: From the Death of the Word to the Rise ofthe Image in the Choreography of MerceCunningham -- Part III: Bodies: Subject or Code? -- Chapter 10: Empathy and Sympathy as TactileEncounter -- Chapter 11: Levinas's Other and the Culture of the Copy -- Chapter 12: From Neo-Platonism to Souls in Silico -- Part IV: Nihilation and the Ethics of Alterity -- Chapter 13: The Semantic Spaces of Terror -- Chapter 14: The Warring Logics of Genocide -- Chapter 15: Incursions of Alterity -- Chapter 16: Memory, History, Revelation -- Chapter 17: Exemplary Individuals -- Part V: Conversations -- Chapter 18: Interview with Emmanuel Levinas -- Chapter 19: Postmodernism and the Desire for God -- Chapter 20: Heterological History -- Part VI: The Art in Ethics -- Chapter 21: Between Swooners and Cynics -- Chapter 22: Facts, Fiction, Ficciones -- Chapter 23: Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands -- Chapter 24: Killing the Cat -- Chapter 25: The Art in Ethics -- Part VII: Comparing Philosophies -- Chapter 26: The Moral Self -- Chapter 27: Autochthony and Welcome -- Chapter 28: Time and Nonbeing in Derrida and Quine -- Chapter 29: The Logic of Artifactual Existents -- Chapter 30: The Mathematical Model in Plato and SomeSurrogates in a Jain Theory of Knowledge.

Chapter 31: Soft Nominalism in Quine and the School of Dignaga -- Chapter 32: Fear of Primitives, Primitive Fears -- Notes -- Index.

Summary: Drawing together pieces from over twenty years that reflect her penetrating thought, Crossover Queries presents, for the first time in a single volume, the astonishing range of a major philosopher. To explore the risks, ambiguities, and unstable conceptual situations of contemporary thought, it takes modes of negation, especially the negation intrinsic to the ethical, as its central thread. Ranging from twentieth-century European philosophy to traditional Jewish thought, from analyses of dance, music, and novels to the question of the name of God, from the phenomenology of the body to recent biological research, its profoundly learned and humanely engaged discussions remain always mindful that, even as philosophy crosses over into new spaces of thought, the philosopher remains standing within and responsible a historical legacy, one conditioned by the negative.

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Chapter 31: Soft Nominalism in Quine and the School of Dignaga -- Chapter 32: Fear of Primitives, Primitive Fears -- Notes -- Index.

Drawing together pieces from over twenty years that reflect her penetrating thought, Crossover Queries presents, for the first time in a single volume, the astonishing range of a major philosopher. To explore the risks, ambiguities, and unstable conceptual situations of contemporary thought, it takes modes of negation, especially the negation intrinsic to the ethical, as its central thread. Ranging from twentieth-century European philosophy to traditional Jewish thought, from analyses of dance, music, and novels to the question of the name of God, from the phenomenology of the body to recent biological research, its profoundly learned and humanely engaged discussions remain always mindful that, even as philosophy crosses over into new spaces of thought, the philosopher remains standing within and responsible a historical legacy, one conditioned by the negative.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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