Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire

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305 INDEX Abraham, 23 alterity, 88, 106, 117, 155, 160–61, 243, 273n13 Anthony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 5–6 Aristophanes, 28, 34 Arnold, Matthew, 5, 276n27 atheism, 174–75, 186, 240 authenticity, 72–78, 80–93, 273n13 awakening, 41–42 beauty, 31, 47–48 Being: absence of, 193; anonymity of, 96; and being, 69, 98–101, 207, 277n35, 277n36, 286n37; empowerment of, 107; and evil, 247; and the Good, 25, 41, 95–98, 101–08, 241–43, 288n2–3; and il y a, 105; Levinas on, 41, 95–98, 104–08, 265n7, 271n2; and metaphysics, 103–04. See also Other, the being: and Being, 69, 98–101, 207, 277n35, 277n36, 286n37; of God, 256; Heidegger on, 97–106, 277n35, 278n38, 286n37; history before, 169; and hypostasis, 183–87; tyranny of, 134; without beings, 207. See also beyond being Being and Time (Heidegger), 74, 251 Bernasconi, Robert, 267n25, 271n2, 279n50, 280n8 beyond being: ambiguity in nature of, 244; and the Good, 95–98, 104–08; and Heidegger, 98–104; Levinas on, 271n2; and longing, 215–18, 228–35, 241–43, 258; and the numinous, 232; and responsibility to the Other, 134. See also being Blanchot, Maurice, 243, 278n43 Böehme, Jacob, 196, 233 Brown, Robert, 193, 197, 203 Buber, Martin, 16, 159 “The Buried Life” (Arnold), 5 Chanter, Tina, 278n41 child, 56–57, 259, 270n51 cogito. See the I Cohen, Richard, 57, 264n2, 270n47, 278n41, 284n8 coming-to-be-home, 90 306 Index conscience and the self, 120 consciousness: and creation, 200; Fichte on, 161; and freedom, 131; and the I, 115, 145–46; and shame, 128–33 consumption and longing, 226, 254, 260 contractio Dei, 171–79, 185–86, 196–97 contractio hominis, 182–87 Cratylus (Plato), 64, 269n40 craving, 85, 291n20. See also desire; longing creation: and consciousness, 200; as contractio Dei, 171–79, 185–86, 196–97; as contractio hominis, 182–87; as the eternal beginning and eternally past, 204–05; and ethics, 212–15; and the face, 180–81; and God, 171–81; Levinas on, 169–79, 212–15; and longing, 181–82; and metaphysical desire, 178; and the Other, 169–71; passivity of, 175; preceded by il y a, 207–08; Schelling on, 187–92, 194–206, 212–15, 284n14; and shame, 181; and time, 204–05; and the trace, 178–82 Critchley, Simon, 267n31 daemon, 32 Dasein, 74–75, 82, 90 dependence, 173–77, 188–90, 200–06, 283n4. See also independence Der Ister lectures (Heidegger), 89–90 Derrida, Jacques, 107, 265n8, 268n39 Descartes, René, 15, 115–16, 177 desire: erotic, 270n51; immanence of, 56; and metaphysical desire, 54–60; and need and nostalgia, 59–60; for the Other, 20; and pleasure, 51–53; and the self, 120; and shame, 137–38; as sickness, 266n13; versus longing, 219, 225–27, 253–57. See also craving; longing Desire, desire, 54–56, 77–79; erotic, 56, 270n51 Diotima, 27, 34 divine, the, 63–65, 208, 210, 218–19, 239–40, 253, 255, 289n6, 290n13. See also God; the numinous; the Other Eckhart, Meister, 233 ego: finite and infinite, 151–52; passivity of, 139–41; and the self, 131; and shame, 119–20; tyranny of, 116. See also I, the egoism, 116, 281n10 emancipation, 41 empowerment, 102–03, 107 enjoyment, 58–59, 122–24, 173–77 epiphany, 136 epithumia (lust), 61–65 Eros: authenticity of, 72–78, 85–93; and beauty, 31, 47; as daemon, 32; and the divine, 63–65; and ethics, 266n17; Heidegger on, 70–72, 77, 79, 81, 272–73n11, 291n21; and homecoming and homelessness, 34–36; Levinas on, 27–29, 45–47, 52–54, 56; and longing, 155–56; and Index 307 metaphysical desire, 36–37, 60; and need, 32–33; and nostalgia, 46; passivity of, 48; Plato on, 27–33; and pleasure, 53, 61–63; and striving and having, 72, 79–85, 177; as “way out,” 32–33, 267–68n32 Essence of Truth, The (Heidegger), 70–71 “Eternity and Time: Levinas Returns to Schelling” (Steinkamp), 206–12 eternity, 211 ethics, ethical: and creation, 212–15; and Eros, 266n17; and freedom, 134–36; and the holy, 239–41; and the I, 149–56; and longing, 156, 168; and metaphysical desire, 113–14, 156; and the Other, 179; as spiritual optics, 167; transcendence of, 267n25 Ethics (Spinoza), 23 evil, 95–96, 212–13, 238, 245–49, 260, 287n47 excess, 82 Existence and Existents (Levinas), 58 exteriority, 20–21, 46–47 face, the...