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4. The Alterity of the Stranger and the Experience of the Alien
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
- EDITOR'S NOTE ix
- ABBREVIATIONS xi
- INTRODUCTION xiii
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I. Relations with Others
- 1. The Body of Difference 1
- 2. The Phenomenology of Eros: A Reading of Totality and Infinity, IV.B 30
- 3. The Encounter with the Stranger: Two Interpretations of the Vulnerability of the Skin 43
- 4. The Alterity of the Stranger and the Experience of the Alien 62
- 5. Sensibility, Trauma, and the Trace: Levinas from Phenomenology to the Immemorial 90
- 6. Ethics as First Philosophy and Religion 130
- II. The Question of God 153
- 7. The Bible Gives to Thought: Levinas on the Possibility and Proper Nature of Biblical Thinking 153
- 8. The Significance of Levinas's Work for Christian Thought 184
- 9. Commanded Love and Divine Transcendence in Levinas and Kierkegaard 200
- 10. The Voice without Name: Homage to Levinas 224
- 11. The Price of Being Dispossessed: Levinas's God and Freud's Trauma 243
- 12. Adieu—sans Dieu: Derrida and Levinas 276
- CONTRIBUTORS 313
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
- EDITOR'S NOTE ix
- ABBREVIATIONS xi
- INTRODUCTION xiii
-
I. Relations with Others
- 1. The Body of Difference 1
- 2. The Phenomenology of Eros: A Reading of Totality and Infinity, IV.B 30
- 3. The Encounter with the Stranger: Two Interpretations of the Vulnerability of the Skin 43
- 4. The Alterity of the Stranger and the Experience of the Alien 62
- 5. Sensibility, Trauma, and the Trace: Levinas from Phenomenology to the Immemorial 90
- 6. Ethics as First Philosophy and Religion 130
- II. The Question of God 153
- 7. The Bible Gives to Thought: Levinas on the Possibility and Proper Nature of Biblical Thinking 153
- 8. The Significance of Levinas's Work for Christian Thought 184
- 9. Commanded Love and Divine Transcendence in Levinas and Kierkegaard 200
- 10. The Voice without Name: Homage to Levinas 224
- 11. The Price of Being Dispossessed: Levinas's God and Freud's Trauma 243
- 12. Adieu—sans Dieu: Derrida and Levinas 276
- CONTRIBUTORS 313