The Awakening of the I

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: ''Après Vous, Monsieur!" 1
5. PART I Intellectual and Personal Biography
6. Interview with François Poirié 23
7. Interview with Myriam Anissimov 84
8. Interview with Salomon Malka 93
9. PART II Ethics as First Philosophy
10. The Vocation of the Other 105
11. Being-for-the-Other 114
12. The Philosopher and Death 121
13. Being-Toward-Death and "Thou Shalt Not Kill" 130
14. Intention, Event, and the Other 140
15. Reality Has Weight 158
16. Philosophy, Justice, and Love 165
17. The Awakening of the I 182
18. In the Name of the Other 188
19. The Other, Utopia, and Justice 200
20. The Proximity of the Other 211
21. Who Shall Not Prophesy? 219
22. Responsibility and Substitution 228
23. On the Usefulness of Insomnia 234
24. PART III A-Dieu
25. On Jewish Philosophy 239
26. Judaism and Christianity after Franz Rosenzweig 255
27. Discussion Following "Transcendence and Intelligibility" 268
28. Glossary 287
29. Notes 291
30. Select Bibliography of Works by Emmanuel Levinas 301
31. Index 303