The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Levinas the Exorbitant 1 Kevin Hart Levinas between German Metaphysics and Christian Theology 17 Leora Batnitzky The Disincarnation of the Word: The Trace of God in Reading Scripture 32 Robert Gibbs Secrecy, Modesty, and the Feminine: Kabbalistic Traces in the Thought of Levinas 52 Elliot R. Wolfson Against Theology, or ‘‘The Devotion of a Theology Without Theodicy’’: Levinas on Religion 74 Richard A. Cohen Is the Other My Neighbor? Reading Levinas Alongside Hermann Cohen 90 Dana Hollander ‘‘Love Strong as Death’’: Levinas and Heidegger 108 Jeffrey L. Kosky On Levinas’s Gifts to Christian Theology 130 Robyn Horner ix The Prevenience and Phenomenality of Grace; or, The Anteriority of the Posterior 150 Michael Purcell Prolifigacy, Parsimony, and the Ethics of Expenditure in the Philosophy of Levinas 171 Edith Wyschogrod Excess and Desire: A Commentary on Totality and Infinity, Section I, Part D 188 Jeffrey Bloechl The Care of the Other and Substitution 201 Jean-Luc Marion Should Jews and Christians Fear the Gifts of the Greeks? Reflections on Levinas, Translation, and Atheistic Theology 211 Paul Franks Thinking about God and God-Talk with Levinas 216 Merold Westphal Words of Peace and Truth: A-Dieu, Levinas 230 Michael A. Signer Notes 243 Contributors 301 Index 307 x Contents ...