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Crossover queries: dwelling with negatives, embodying philosophy's others
Edith Wyschogrod
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Frontmatter (page i)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Abbreviations (page xv)
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Introduction (page 1)
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PART I: GOD: DESIRING THE INFINITE (page 11)
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1. Intending Transcendence, Desiring God (page 13)
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2. Corporeality and the Glory of the Infinite in the Philosophy of Levinas (page 29)
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3. Postmodern Saintliness, Ecstasy and Altruism (page 45)
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4. Levinas and Hillel's Questions (page 61)
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5. Recontextualizing the Ontological Argument: A Lacanian Analysis (page 76)
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PART II: TRAINING BODIES: PEDAGOGIES OF PAIN (page 93)
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6. Asceticism as Willed Corporeality, Body in Foucault and Heidegger (page 95)
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7. Blind Man Seeing, From Chiasm to Hyperreality (page 112)
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8. The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Héloïse, From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics (page 125)
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9. From the Death of the Word to the Rise of the Image in the Choreography of Merce Cunningham (page 141)
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PART III: BODIES: SUBJECT OR CODE? (page 155)
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10. Empathy and Sympathy as Tactile Encounter (page 157)
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11. Levinas's Other and the Culture of the Copy (page 173)
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12. From Neo-Platonism to Souls in Silico, Quests for Immortality (page 189)
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PART IV: NIHILATION AND THE ETHICS OF ALTERITY (page 205)
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13. The Semantic Spaces of Terror, A Theological Response (page 207)
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14. The Warring Logics of Genocide (page 222)
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15. Incursions of Alterity, The Double Bind of Obligation (page 236)
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16. Memory, History, Revelation, Writing the Dead Other (page 248)
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17. Exemplary Individuals, Toward a Phenomenological Ethics (page 263)
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PART V: CONVERSATIONS (page 281)
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18. Interview with Emmanuel Levinas (page 283)
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19. Postmodernism and the Desire for God, An E-mail Exchange (page 298)
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20. Heterological History, A Conversation (page 316)
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PART VI: THE ART IN ETHICS (page 329)
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21. Between Swooners and Cynics, The Art of Envisioning God (page 331)
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22. Facts, Fiction, Ficciones, Truth in the Study of Religion (page 345)
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23. Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands, Specters in Arnold Schoenberg’s Opera Moses and Aron (page 360)
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24. Killing the Cat, Sacrifice and Beauty in Genet and Mishima (page 375)
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25. The Art in Ethics, Aesthetics, Objectivity, and Alterity in the Philosophy of Levinas (page 388)
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PART VII: COMPARING PHILOSOPHIES (page 403)
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26. The Moral Self (page 405)
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27. Autochthony and Welcome, Discourses of Exile in Derrida and Levinas (page 423)
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28. Time and Nonbeing in Derrida and Quine (page 432)
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29. The Logic of Artifactual Existents, John Dewey and Claude Lévi-Strauss (page 449)
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30. The Mathematical Model in Plato and Some, Surrogates in a Jain Theory of Knowledge (page 464)
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31. Soft Nominalism in Quine and the School of Dignāga (page 474)
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32. Fear of Primitives, Primitive Fears, Anthropology in the Philosophies of Heidegger and Levinas (page 488)
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Notes (page 505)
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Index (page 563)
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Published: 2006
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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