Addressing Levinas

Contents

Preface ix Acknowledgments xv List of Abbreviations of Works by Emmanuel Levinas xvii Introduction: Addressing Levinas xix Strange Fire 3 Jill Robbins The Responsibility of Irresponsibility: Taking (Yet) Another Look at the Akedah 17 Claire Elise Katz Beyond Outrage: The Delirium of Responsibility in Levinas’s Scene of Persecution 34 James Hatley The Strangeness in the Ethical Discourse of Emmanuel Levinas 52 Wayne Froman Levinas: A Transdisciplinary Thinker 61 Michael B. Smith “Between Betrayal and Betrayal”: Epistemology and Ethics in Derrida’s Debt to Levinas 75 Margret Grebowicz Levinas on the Saying and the Said 86 Bernhard Waldenfels Bare Humanity 98 Alphonso Lingis The Other Side of Intentionality 109 Leslie MacAvoy Contents Face and Revelation: Levinas on Teaching as Way-Faring 119 Anthony J. Steinbock Being and the Other: Ethics and Ontology in Levinas and Heidegger 138 François Raffoul Some Questions for My Levinasian Friends 152 David Wood Levinas and the Struggle for Existence 170 Robert Bernasconi Wealth and Justice in a U-topian Context 185 John Drabinski Persecution: The Self at the Heart of Metaphysics 199 David Michael Kleinberg-Levin Returning Violence 236 Antje Kapust Levinasian Responsibility and Freudian Analysis: Is the Unthinkable an Un-Conscious? 257 Bettina Bergo Sensible Subjects: Levinas and Irigaray on Incarnation and Ethics 296 Diane Perpich Conditions: The Politics of Ontology and the Temporality of the Feminine 310 Tina Chanter Contributors 339 ...