Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy`s Others
- New York Fordham University Press 2006
- 566p
- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy .
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