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 ...
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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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Very Good. 0823226077. Tiny crimp and tear to bottom of spine, otherwise text clean and tight; Perspectives In Continental Philosophy; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 592 pages.
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