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ix acknowledgments Earlier versions of these chapters have appeared in the locations indicated below. Permission to publish these revised versions is gratefully acknowledged. Introduction—five paragraphs, as indicated, are taken from ‘‘Levinas, Kierkegaard , and the Theological Task,’’ Modern Theology 8, no. 3 (July 1992): 241–61. Chapter 1—‘‘Levinas and the Immediacy of the Face,’’ Faith and Philosophy 9, no. 4 (October 1993): 486–502. Chapter 2—‘‘The Transparent Shadow: Kierkegaard and Levinas in Dialogue ,’’ Kierkegaard in Post-Modernity, ed. Martin Matuštík and Merold Westphal (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 265–81. Chapter 3—‘‘Levinas’ Teleological Suspension of the Religious,’’ Ethics as First Philosophy: The Significance of Levinas for Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, ed. Adriaan T. Peperzak (New York: Routledge, 1995), 151– 60. Chapter 4—‘‘Commanded Love and Divine Transcendence in Kierkegaard and Levinas,’’ The Face of the Other and the Trace of God: Essays on the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, ed. Jeffrey Bloechl (New York: Fordham University Press 2000), 200–233. Chapter 5—‘‘The Trauma of Transcendence as Heteronomous Intersubjectivity ,’’ Intersubjectivité et théologie philosophique, ed. Marco M. Olivetti (Padua: CEDAM, 2001), 87–110. Chapter 6—‘‘Transcendence, Heteronomy, and the Birth of the Responsible Self,’’ Calvin O. Schrag and the Task of Philosophy after Postmodernity, ed. Martin Beck Matuštík and William L. McBride (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2002), 201–25. Chapter 7—‘‘Levinas and the ‘Logic’ of Solidarity,’’ Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 20, no. 2, & 21, no. 1 (1998): 297–319. Chapter 8—‘‘Intentionality and Transcendence,’’ in Subjectivity and Transcendence , ed. Arne Grøn, Iben Damgaard, and Søren Overgaard (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007), 71–93. ...

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