...This chapter is a discourse between Edith Wyschogrod and John D. Caputo on postmodernism and the desire for God. In the postmodern culture of images, so-called virtual reality raises the problem to a new level. Nothing is more common in the postmodern world than the replication of the violence...

... Wood's criticism of autobiographical philosophizing is countered by the possibility of universal truths, while his point about deconstructionism voiding religion is valid for nihilists, but invalid for affirmative deconstructionists seeking the existence of the impossible. Second, Edith Wyschogrod has...

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... media spectacle terrorism alterity historian image body ego God Infinite proximity transcendence altruism Bataille Georges generosity gift the relation self stranger difference ethnic cleansing community Edith Wyschogrod saintly influence ethic of relation influence normative...

... friendship neighbor gift the Edith Wyschogrod saintliness Saints and Postmodernism ethics Christian mysticism alterity In her project of revisioning moral philosophy, Edith Wyschogrod takes a decisive turn from moral theory to hagiography, from abstract analysis and argument to concrete life stories...

... Wittgenstein Ludwig Husserl Edmund apophasis Chrétien Jean Louis Mauss Marcel Adam creatio ex nihilo nihilism prayer friendship Abel media practice Edith Wyschogrod Christian theology alterity Levinasian hospitality God Under the Immigration Act in Britain, it has been estimated that in 2007...

... but whose name resists explication.… Efforts to show what cannot be said in phenomenological terms … express both a fundamental category mistake and an ineradicable hope. Edith Wyschogrod ¹ Gedanken sind frei. Thoughts are free. Thinking is autonomous. Philosophers are free...

... phenomenology subjectivity theology translation face the Incarnation Other revelation relation witness chaos il y a vulnerability transcendence community Moses Tetragrammaton passivity prayer suffering Abraham holiness being Derrida Jacques wandering Edith Wyschogrod philosophy...

... prophecy Shekhinah community Incarnation Moses Judaism witness evil redemption Purim Abraham embodiment image Talmud Adam Christianity idol Jesus of Nazareth messianism circumcision subjectivity prayer phenomenology agency being creatio ex nihilo Edith Wyschogrod philosophy...

... Gospel of John Incarnation Kierkegaard Søren transcendence Moses Socrates apocalyptic Qumran Bultmann Rudolf midrash prophecy revelation Holy of Holies Edith Wyschogrod Christian passion narratives remembering prolonged hesitancy duplicitous mnemohistory That which can in no way...

...This chapter presents Edith Wyschogrod's own response to her commentators. It highlights the production in this volume of multiple authorial personae. Her use of the language of multiple personae hearkens back to her description of the heterological historian in An Ethics of Remembering...

...This introductory chapter sets out the purpose of the book, which is to foster and extend conversations in Continental philosophy of religion that owe their particular vibrancy to Edith Wyschogrod's work — conversations about the desire of and for God, the nature of transcendence, the dilemmas...

... Schweitzer Albert Sermon on the Mount technology Bultmann Rudolf identity redemption suffering Ereignis transcendence ressentiment Milton John fall the Incarnation kenosis resurrection Marx Karl exteriority gift the Shoah Kabbalah Edith Wyschogrod nihilism authority ethics death of God...

... Kant Immanuel Luther Martin theology Shoah Abel Auschwitz Plato Edith Wyschogrod historiography historian natural attitude consciousness possibility of history In response to a question put to Jacques Derrida by Elizabeth Clark, one of America's leading historians of early Christianity...

... haunting Luther Martin Paul remembrance Rosenzweig Franz theology Hegel G W F Arendt Hannah eternity evil Edith Wyschogrod influence historian remembrance hope To Edith, one of the most generous of interlocutors and a cosmopolitical thinker. In his Ursprung des deutschen...

... Roland identity White Hayden history Shoah Blanchot Maurice Kant Immanuel mass death Hegel G W F grace theology Infinite Pascal Blaise relation sublime Levinas Emmanuel Edith Wyschogrod identities influence saintly pedagogy An Ethics of Remembering historian In An Ethics...

...Since the publication of her first book, Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics, in 1974 — the first book about Levinas published in English — Edith Wyschogrod has been at the forefront of the fields of Continental philosophy and philosophy of religion. Her work has...

...In The Ethics of Remembering, Edith Wyschogrod applies the familiar postmodernist concept of “heterology”—the study of otherness or “alterity”—to the philosophy of history. This chapter presents her conversation with Carl Raschke, in which they explore the notion of “heterological...

... in a hagiographical register, revealing how the survivors' ethics are represented in these narratives through tropes of saintly but transgressive figures that derive from folk tales and setsuwa (legends and myths). Extending philosopher Edith Wyschogrod's idea that postmodern ethics should look...