5 From Eschatology to Awaiting: Futurity in Levinas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Preface xv
5. Acknowledgements xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I: Futurity in the Constitution of Transcendental Subjectivity
8. 1 Protention as More than Inverse Retention 11
9. 2 Expecting the World 28
10. 3 Experience and the Essential Possibility of Anticipation 41
11. PART II: Futurity and the ‘Openness’ of the Intentional Subject
12. 4 Phenomenology, Openness, and Ethics as First Philosophy 55
13. 5 From Eschatology to Awaiting: Futurity in Levinas 69
14. 6 Levinas’s Unique Contribution to Futurity in Phenomenology 86
15. PART III: Futurity and Intentionality— The Promise of Relationship
16. 7 Genesis, Beginnings, and Futurity 97
17. 8 From Deferring to Waiting (for the Messiah): Derrida’s Account of Futurity 115
18. 9 The Promise of the Future 129
19. Conclusion: The Promissory Discipline 140
20. Notes 155
21. Bibliography 193
22. Index 207