Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Levinas the Exorbitant 1
5. Levinas Between German Metaphysics and Christian Theology 17
6. The Disincarnation of the Word 32
7. Secrecy, Modesty, and the Feminine Kabbalistic Traces in the Thought of Levinas 52
8. Against Theology, or ‘‘The Devotion of a Theology Without Theodicy’’ 74
9. Is the Other My Neighbor? 90
10. ‘‘Love Strong as Death’’ 108
11. On Levinas’s Gifts to Christian Theology 130
12. The Prevenience and Phenomenality of Grace; or, The Anteriority of the Posterior 150
13. Profligacy, Parsimony, and the Ethics of Expenditure in the Philosophy of Levinas 171
14. Excess and Desire 188
15. The Care of the Other and Substitution 201
16. Should Jews and Christians Fear the Gifts of the Greeks? 211
17. Thinking about God and God-Talk with Levinas 216
18. Words of Peace and Truth 230
19. Notes 243
20. Contributors 301
21. Index 307
22. Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series 309