'The book's main thesis--that phenomena like Auschwitz and Hiroshima, the process Wyschogrod calls 'the death world, ' have established a new historically conditioned a priori that must transforms the meaning of self, time, and language--is original, challenging and developed in a clear and forceful manner..' --Karsten Harries
The Ethical is a collection of readings on ethics and the nature of morality by some of the most important contemporary philosophers in the continental tradition. Recent attention to ethics in continental thought - often taken to be antithetical to Anglo-American moral philosophy - demonstrates how much these two traditions have in common. The ...
Eminent theologians John Milbank, Graham Ward, and Edith Wyschogrod discuss aesthetics, placing radical orthodoxy in dialogue with postmodern theology.
What are the ethical responsibilities of the historian in an age of mass murder and hyper-reality? Can one be postmodern and still write history? For whom should history be written? The author explores these questions through the figure of the "heterological historian". Realizing the philosophical impossibilities of ever recovering "what really ...
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 ...
"In this exciting and important work, Wyschogrod attempts to read contemporary ethical theory against the vast unwieldy tapestry that is postmodernism. . . . [A] provocative and timely study."--Michael Gareffa, "Theological Studies" "A 'must' for readers interested in the borderlands between philosophy, hagiography, and ethics."--Mark I. Wallace, ...
This study of the contemporary French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas compares his thought with that of his contemporaries, most notably Jacques Derrida and Husserl. Included is a discussion of Levinas's relation to Judaism, such as his use of literature from the Torah and other religious writings.
What does it mean to give a "gift"? Is the gift an expenditure without reserve? Is there such a thing as a pure gift? Or does the gift inevitably set off a circle of return the effect of which is to annul the gift and reduce the gift to an economic circle? In this timely and outstanding collection of studies editors Edith Wyschogrod, Jean-Joseph ...
What does it mean to give a "gift"? Is the gift an expenditure without reserve? Is there such a thing as a pure gift? Or does the gift inevitably set off a circle of return the effect of which is to annul the gift and reduce the gift to an economic circle? In this timely and outstanding collection of studies editors Edith Wyschogrod, Jean-Joseph ...
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