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Edith Wyschogrod
Exploring the risks, ambiguities, and unstable conceptual worlds of contemporary thought, this book brings together the wide-ranging writings, across twenty years, of one of our most important philosophers, Wyschogrod. It…
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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…
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…
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Through the figure of the heterological historian , this text creates a framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian. It also weighs the impact…
Contemporary phenomena of mass death-such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz-have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod shows that the…
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Examines and displays the influence of Edith Wyschogrod’s work in essays that take up the thematics of influence in a variety of contexts: Christian theology, the saintly behavior of the…
Since the publication of her first book in 1974, Edith Wyschogrod has been at the forefront of the fields of Continental philosophy and philosophy of religion. This book examines and…
The essays indicate both the history of reflection on ethics in Continental thought as well as its contemporary viability. Readers will find discussions of the ethical as it is treated…
The authors examine implications of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory of discourse for the understanding of theological language. Topics include self, desire, post-structuralism, the unconscious, the father’s rule, dwelling (in Heidegger’s…
What does it mean to give a gift? In this timely collection, distinguished anthropologists-Maurice Godelier, George Marcus, Stephen Tyler-and philosophers-Mark C. Taylor, John D. Caputo, Jean-Joseph Goux and Adriaan Peperzak…
Elliot R. Wolfson
In this erudite new work, Elliot R. Wolfson explores philosophical gnosis in the writings of Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod. The juxtaposition of these three extraordinary, albeit relatively…
