The Impossible Community: Privative Judgements in Blanchot, Levinas and Nancy

The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition In Contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself In manifold allusions and influences - on the other hand, difficult to define, rarely referring to openly revealed Judaic sources. Following the recent tradition of Levinas and Derrida, this book tentatively refers to this mode of presence In terms of "traces of Judaism" and the contributors grapple with the following questions: What are these traces and how can we track them down? Is there such a thing as "Jewish difference" that truly makes a difference In philosophy? And if so, how can we define it? The additional working hypothesis, accepted by some and challenged by other contributors, is that Jewish Thought draws, explicitly or implicitly, on three main concepts of Jewish theology, creation, revelation and redemption. If this is the case, then the specificity of the Jewish contribution to modern philosophy and the theoretical humanities should be found In - sometimes open, sometimes hidden - fidelity to these three categories. Offering a new understanding of the relationship between philosophy and theology, this book is an important contribution to the fields of Theology, Philosophy and Jewish Studies

The Impossible Community: Privative Judgements in Blanchot, Levinas and Nancy

The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition In Contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself In manifold allusions and influences - on the other hand, difficult to define, rarely referring to openly revealed Judaic sources. Following the recent tradition of Levinas and Derrida, this book tentatively refers to this mode of presence In terms of "traces of Judaism" and the contributors grapple with the following questions: What are these traces and how can we track them down? Is there such a thing as "Jewish difference" that truly makes a difference In philosophy? And if so, how can we define it? The additional working hypothesis, accepted by some and challenged by other contributors, is that Jewish Thought draws, explicitly or implicitly, on three main concepts of Jewish theology, creation, revelation and redemption. If this is the case, then the specificity of the Jewish contribution to modern philosophy and the theoretical humanities should be found In - sometimes open, sometimes hidden - fidelity to these three categories. Offering a new understanding of the relationship between philosophy and theology, this book is an important contribution to the fields of Theology, Philosophy and Jewish Studies

God and the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas: A Nietzschean Response

This paper is divided into four parts. The first is concerned with the general relationship between philosophy and theology. The second with Levinas's interpretation of the relationship between theology and philosophy. The third deals with this interpretation and how it might be contrasted with other philosophical uses of the word God most notably that of Descartes and Kant. The final section takes the form of a Nietzschean response to Levinas's phenomenological defence of religion. This response is directed at the place of the subject in religious language. It is the latter that is the true object of Nietzsche's atheism, and not the question ot God's existence

The Impossible Community: Privative Judgements in Blanchot, Levinas and Nancy

The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition In Contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself In manifold allusions and influences - on the other hand, difficult to define, rarely referring to openly revealed Judaic sources. Following the recent tradition of Levinas and Derrida, this book tentatively refers to this mode of presence In terms of "traces of Judaism" and the contributors grapple with the following questions: What are these traces and how can we track them down? Is there such a thing as "Jewish difference" that truly makes a difference In philosophy? And if so, how can we define it? The additional working hypothesis, accepted by some and challenged by other contributors, is that Jewish Thought draws, explicitly or implicitly, on three main concepts of Jewish theology, creation, revelation and redemption. If this is the case, then the specificity of the Jewish contribution to modern philosophy and the theoretical humanities should be found In - sometimes open, sometimes hidden - fidelity to these three categories. Offering a new understanding of the relationship between philosophy and theology, this book is an important contribution to the fields of Theology, Philosophy and Jewish Studies

The Impossible Community: Privative Judgements in Blanchot, Levinas and Nancy

The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition In Contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself In manifold allusions and influences - on the other hand, difficult to define, rarely referring to openly revealed Judaic sources. Following the recent tradition of Levinas and Derrida, this book tentatively refers to this mode of presence In terms of "traces of Judaism" and the contributors grapple with the following questions: What are these traces and how can we track them down? Is there such a thing as "Jewish difference" that truly makes a difference In philosophy? And if so, how can we define it? The additional working hypothesis, accepted by some and challenged by other contributors, is that Jewish Thought draws, explicitly or implicitly, on three main concepts of Jewish theology, creation, revelation and redemption. If this is the case, then the specificity of the Jewish contribution to modern philosophy and the theoretical humanities should be found In - sometimes open, sometimes hidden - fidelity to these three categories. Offering a new understanding of the relationship between philosophy and theology, this book is an important contribution to the fields of Theology, Philosophy and Jewish Studies

The Effect Of Buyer-seller Relationships On The Buyer\u27s Evaluation And Choice

Sellers of technology-based capital equipment are often required to participate in a competitive bidding process prior to the buyer\u27s final evaluation and choice. Factors such as the competing sellers\u27 relative prices and relative functional benefits are certainly important to the buyer. However, the relative quality of the competing sellers\u27 buyer-seller (B-S) relationships, both before and during the bidding process, may also play an important role. Therefore, the management problem addressed by this dissertation, stated from the seller\u27s perspective, is how to manage B-S relationships to favourably affect the buyer\u27s choice in competitive bid situations.;A research model comprising eight constructs and sixteen hypotheses is derived from three fundamental propositions: (1) the buyer\u27s Choice from the short list of competing sellers is determined by the buyer\u27s overall expectation of Relative Value; (2) the buyer\u27s expectation of Relative Value is derived from a tradeoff of a set of interdependent Relative Expectations of the products\u27 benefits and costs; and (3) the buyer\u27s Relative Expectations of benefits and costs are affected by relative perceptions of the quality of the sellers\u27 B-S Relationships.;Each construct in the research model is operationalized with a series of questionnaire items. Of particular importance, the three B-S relationship constructs are operationalized with questions regarding the sellers\u27 relational behaviours, i.e., Attention, Collaboration, Intensity, and Reliability. The questionnaires were completed by 106 buyers of private branch exchange (PBX) telecommunications equipment, and the data were analyzed using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) program and Discriminant Analysis. The results demonstrate the research model\u27s ability to predict over 88% of buyer Choice, and show strong statistical support for thirteen of the sixteen hypotheses.;In conclusion, the three fundamental propositions are validated: buyer Choice of seller is determined by the buyer\u27s expectation of Relative Value; which is in turn derived from Relative Expectations of the products\u27 benefits and costs; and which are in turn affected by relative perceptions of the quality of the sellers\u27 B-S Relationships. Furthermore, the quality of an effective B-S Relationship can be defined by a set of four relational behaviours. Application of these findings may help sellers to favourably affect the buyer\u27s Choice in bid situations

Spinoza for our time: Politics and modernity

Book Review Antonio Negri, translated by William McCuaig, with a foreward by Rocco Gangle, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013, 125pp., ISBN: 978-023116046

Kafka’s Letter

Perhaps of all the writers Kafka is the most important to Blanchot. In some way, he defines what literature means to Blanchot. In every period of his work, and in most of his publications of essays and reviews, there is a substantial piece on Kafka (so much so that in French, De Kaf-ka à Kafka, there is a complete edition of them). This article is a personal account of the au-thor’s own encounter with Kafka. It focuses on the subjective experience of literature as how reading deeply affects one’s own sense of self (‘A book,’ Kafka writes, ‘must be the axe for the frozen sea inside of us.’) What is most important about Blanchot’s description of literature, de-spite the fact that we might attempt to turn it back into another theory, is that the book is an en-counter between the author and the work, which continually escapes them, and the reader, who through reading, is transformed and changed forever. It is this alteration that is the ‘truth’ of literature, rather than any description or interpretation of the text, which views this subjective response as a failure. Without this failure, however, literature would not be possible and reading would be reduced to information

The Messianic Idea, the Time of Capital and the Everyday

Why should anyone bother with religious ideas? Are they not the most outmoded, reactionary and useless forms of expression? Not if they make us see reality in a different way. What we are faced with in these dangerous times is a complete and total global catastrophe. Capitalism turns away from this disaster (of which it is the cause) by promising an endless future of the same. Only a time which breaks with this time can truly prevent it from happening. We are faced with three futures: the future of the disaster, which is the reality of capitalism; the future of progress, which is the fantasy of capital; and that future which interrupts this fatal double of the real and the fantastical. Such a future is the messianic. Messianism should be clearly distinguished from any kind of millenarianism. It does not seek the “end of times”, a world beyond or behind the world, but the transformation of the present by the hidden possibilities of the everyday