Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I: GOD: DESIRING THE INFINITE
7. 1 Intending Transcendence: Desiring God 11
8. 2 Corporeality and the Glory of the Infinite in the Philosophy of Levinas 29
9. 3 Postmodern Saintliness: Ecstasy and Altruism 45
10. 4 Levinas and Hillel’s Questions 61
11. 5 Recontextualizing the Ontological Argument: A Lacanian Analysis 76
12. PART II Training Bodies: Pedagogies of Pain
13. 6 Asceticism as Willed Corporeality: Body in Foucault and Heidegger 93
14. 7 Blind Man Seeing: From Chiasm to Hyperreality 112
15. 8 The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Héloïse: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics 125
16. 9 From the Death of the Word to the Rise of the Image in the Choreography of Merce Cunningham 141
17. PART III Bodies: Subject or Code?
18. 10 Empathy and Sympathy as Tactile Encounter 155
19. 11 Levinas’s Other and the Culture of the Co 173
20. 12 From Neo-Platonism to Souls in Silico: Quests for Immortality ‘‘ 189
21. PART IV Nihilation and the Ethics of Alterity
22. 13 The Semantic Spaces of Terror: A Theological Response 205
23. 14 The Warring Logics of Genocide 222
24. 15 Incursions of Alterity: The Double Bind of Obligation 236
25. 16 Memory, History, Revelation: Writing the Dead Other 248
26. 17 Exemplary Individuals: Toward a Phenomenological Ethics 263
27. PART V Conversations
28. 18 Interview with Emmanuel Levinas 281
29. 19 Postmodernism and the Desire for God: An E-mail Exchange 298
30. 20 Heterological History A Conversation 316
31. PART VI The Art in Ethics
32. 21 Between Swooners and Cynics: The Art of Envisioning God 329
33. 22 Facts, Fiction, Ficciones: Truth in the Study of Religion 345
34. 23 Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands: Specters in Arnold Schoenberg’s Opera Moses and Aron 360
35. 24 Killing the Cat: Sacrifice and Beauty in Genet and Mishima 375
36. 25 The Art in Ethics: Aesthetics, Objectivity, and Alterity in the Philosophy of Levinas 388
37. PART VII Comparing Philosophies
38. 26 The Moral Self: Levinas and Hermann Cohen 403
39. 27 Autochthony and Welcome: Discourses of Exile in Derrida and Levinas 423
40. 28 Time and Nonbeing in Derrida and Quine 432
41. 29 The Logic of Artifactual Existents: John Dewey and Claude Le´vi-Strauss 449
42. 30 The Mathematical Model in Plato and Some Surrogates in a Jain Theory of Knowledge 464
43. 31 Soft Nominalism in Quine and the School of Dignāga 474
44. 32 Fear of Primitives, Primitive Fears: Anthropology in the Philosophies of Heidegger and Levinas 488
45. Notes 505
46. Index 563