Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations of Works by Nietzsche and Levinas

Introduction Bettina Bergo and Jill Stauffer

I.     Revaluing Ethics: Time, Teaching, and the Ambiguity of Forces

1.     The Malice in Good Deeds Alphonso Lingis

2.     The Imperfect: Levinas, Nietzsche, and the Autonomous Subject Jill Stauffer

3.     Nietzsche and Levinas: The Impossible Relation Jean-Michel Longneaux

4.     Ethical Ambivalence Judith Butler

5.     Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Thus Listened the Rabbis: Philosophy, Education, and the Cycle of Enlightenment Claire Elise Katz

II.    The Subject: Sensing, Suffering, and Responding

6.     The Flesh Made Word; Or, The Two Origins Bettina Bergo

7.     Nietzsche, Levinas, and the Meaning of Responsibility Rosalyn Diprose

8.     Beginning’s Abyss: On Solitude in Nietzsche and Levinas John Drabinski

9.     Beyond Suffering I Have No Alibi David Boothroyd

10.   Levinas, Spinozism, Nietzsche, and the Body Richard A. Cohen

III.   Heteronomy and Ubiquity: God in Philosophy

11.   Suffering Redeemable and Irredeemable John Llewelyn

12.   Levinas’s Gaia Scienza Aïcha Liviana Messina

13.   Levinas: Another Ascetic Priest? Silvia Benso

14.   Apocalypse, Eschatology, and the Death of God Brian Schroeder

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index