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Edith Wyschogrod - Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy´s Others - 9780823226078 - V9780823226078
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Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy´s Others

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Description for Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy´s Others paperback. Exploring the risks, ambiguities, and unstable conceptual worlds of contemporary thought, this book brings together the wide-ranging writings, across twenty years, of one of our most important philosophers, Wyschogrod. It also analyzes the negations of biological research and cultural images of mechanized and robotic bodies. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 592 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 42. Weight in Grams: 906.

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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823226078
SKU
V9780823226078
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About Edith Wyschogrod
Edith Wyschogrod is J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought emerita at Rice University. The most recent of her books are An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others; Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy; and a second edition of Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics (Fordham).

Reviews for Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy´s Others
"These studies...remind the scholar of religion that we do violence to religion if we think that we can domesticate it in some closed system or reductionistic mode of explanation." -Journal of Ecumenical Studies "Wyschogrod gathers together 32 philosophical essays produced over two decades, revealing the range of her thinking." -SciTech Book News " ... demonstrates the impressively wide-ranging and unflinchingly ... Read more

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