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Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Auschwitz, Politics, and the twentieth century
Levinas on Grossman’s Life and Fate
Auschwitz and Levinas’s thought
Political reflections
Zionism, politics, and messianism
Responsibility and forgiveness
Phenomenology and transcendental philosophy
A preliminary sketch
Interpreting Levinas’s approach
Transcendental philosophy
An objection
The ethical content of the face-to-face
The social, the face, and the ethical
The call of the face
The face-to-face and acknowledgment
Later thoughts on ethics and the face
Philosophy, totality, and the everyday
Philosophy and the everyday
Totality and the infinite
Ethics beyond totality
Levinas and Rosenzweig
Totality, infinity, and beyond
Meaning, culture, and language
Meaning, relativism, and the ethical
Meaning and language
Ethics and communication: the saying and the said
Subjectivity and the self
Modernity and the self
The early stage
Responsibility and passivity
The self and contemporary philosophy
Levinas and Davidson
Levinas and McDowell
Levinas and Taylor
God and philosophy
God and the philosophical tradition
Early works
Later stage: the trace and Illeity
Philosophy, god, and theology
God, ethics, and contemporary philosophy
Time, messianism, and diachrony
Thinking about time
Early reflections on time
Rosenzweig and Levinas on eschatology
Diachrony and responsibility
Ethical realism and contemporary moral philosophy
Ethics and the everyday
O’Neill’s ethics and practical reason
Levinas and O’Neill
McDowell’s naturalism of second nature
Korsgaard and the perception of reasons
Levinas’s universalism and pluralism
Taylor’s ethical pluralism
What kind of moral thinker is Levinas?
Cavell’s Emersonian perfectionism
Is Levinas a moral perfectionist?
Levinas on ethics and politics
Levinas’s single-mindedness
Beyond language and expressibility
Levinas’s language
Levinas and skepticism: time and absolute diachrony
Skepticism in Otherwise Than Being
Two interpretations of Levinas and skepticism
Derrida’s challenge
Contemporary philosophy and the limits of thought and language
Frege, Wittgenstein, and nonsense
Ethics and the limits of language
Judaism, ethics, and religion
Athens and Jerusalem
An austere humanism
Ethics and prayer
The holocaust and the end of theodicy
Responding to suffering
Revelation in Judaism
Ritual and the law
Ethics and education
Reading Jewish texts
Translating the Bible and the Talmud
Interpreting Levinas on interpretation
Eschatology, ethics, and politics
Levinas’s Zionism
Ethical Messianism
Conclusion: Levinas and the primacy of the ethical – Kant, Kierkegaard, and Derrida
facing reasons
The face as a reason to act
Nagel on agent-neutral reasons
Korsgaard’s critique of Nagel
Darwall and intersubjective value
Placing Levinas
Levinas and contemporary ethics
Some concrete cases
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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