Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy`s Others

By:

Wyschogrod, Edith

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyPublication details: New York Fordham University Press 2006Description: 566pISBN:

0823226069

DDC classification:

W995 N70

Contents:

1. God: Desiring the Infinite Intending Transcendence : Desiring God ...13 Corporeality and the Glory of the Infinite in the Philosophy of Levinas ........29 Postmodern Saintliness: Ecstasy and Altruism .......45 Levinas and Hillel`s Questions ..........61 Recontextualizing the Ontological Argument........76 2. Training Bodies: Pedagogies of Pain Asceticism as Willed Corporeality : body in Foucault and Heidegger .....95 Blind Man Seeing : From Chiasm to Hyperreality .....112 The Howl of Oedipus, The Cry of Heloise from Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics ........125 From the Death of the Word to the Rise of the Image in the Choreography of Merce Cunningham ......141 3. Bodies:Subject or Code Empathy and Sympathy as Tactile Encounter .....157 Levinas`s Other and the Culture of the Copy......173 From Neo-Platonism to Souls in Silico: Quests for immortality ....189 4. Nihilation and the Ethics of Alterity The Semantic Spaces of Terror ......207 The Warring logics of Genocide .........222 Incursions of Alterity .......236 Memory, History, Revelation : Writings the Dead Other .......248 Exemplary Individuals : Towards a phenomenological Ethics ......263 5. Conversations Interview with Emmanuel Levinas ......285 Postmodernism and the Desire for God ...........298 Heterological History .......316 6. The Art in Ethics Between Swooners and Cynics......331 Facts, Fictions, Ficciones ........345 Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands.........360 Killing the Cat : Sacrifice and Beauty in Genet and Mishima ...........375 The Art in Ethics Aesthetics Objectivity, and Alterity in the Philosophy of Levinas ......388 7. Comparing Philosophies The Moral Self: Levinas and Hermann Cohen ........405 Autochthony and Welcome ....425 Time and Nonbeing in Derrida and Quine ........432 The Logic of Artiactual Existents ......449 The Mathematical Model in Plato and Some Surrogates in a Jain Levi-strauss.........449 The Mathematical Model in Plato and Some Surrogates in a Jain Theory of Knowledge ........464 Soft Nominalism in Quine and the School of Dignaga.......474 Fear of Primitives, Primitive fears: Anthropology in the Philosophies of Heidegger and Levinas ...........488

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1. God: Desiring the Infinite
Intending Transcendence : Desiring God ...13
Corporeality and the Glory of the Infinite in the Philosophy of Levinas ........29
Postmodern Saintliness: Ecstasy and Altruism .......45
Levinas and Hillel`s Questions ..........61
Recontextualizing the Ontological Argument........76
2. Training Bodies: Pedagogies of Pain
Asceticism as Willed Corporeality : body in Foucault and Heidegger .....95
Blind Man Seeing : From Chiasm to Hyperreality .....112
The Howl of Oedipus, The Cry of Heloise from Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics ........125
From the Death of the Word to the Rise of the Image in the Choreography of Merce Cunningham ......141
3. Bodies:Subject or Code
Empathy and Sympathy as Tactile Encounter .....157
Levinas`s Other and the Culture of the Copy......173
From Neo-Platonism to Souls in Silico: Quests for immortality ....189
4. Nihilation and the Ethics of Alterity
The Semantic Spaces of Terror ......207
The Warring logics of Genocide .........222
Incursions of Alterity .......236
Memory, History, Revelation : Writings the Dead Other .......248
Exemplary Individuals : Towards a phenomenological Ethics ......263
5. Conversations
Interview with Emmanuel Levinas ......285
Postmodernism and the Desire for God ...........298
Heterological History .......316
6. The Art in Ethics
Between Swooners and Cynics......331
Facts, Fictions, Ficciones ........345
Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands.........360
Killing the Cat : Sacrifice and Beauty in Genet and Mishima ...........375
The Art in Ethics Aesthetics Objectivity, and Alterity in the Philosophy of Levinas ......388
7. Comparing Philosophies
The Moral Self: Levinas and Hermann Cohen ........405
Autochthony and Welcome ....425
Time and Nonbeing in Derrida and Quine ........432
The Logic of Artiactual Existents ......449
The Mathematical Model in Plato and Some Surrogates in a Jain Levi-strauss.........449
The Mathematical Model in Plato and Some Surrogates in a Jain Theory of Knowledge ........464
Soft Nominalism in Quine and the School of Dignaga.......474
Fear of Primitives, Primitive fears: Anthropology in the Philosophies of Heidegger and Levinas ...........488

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