Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

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