Levinas and the Ancients

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CONTENTS Foreword by Adriaan Peperzak • xi Acknowledgments • xiii Abbreviations of Works by Emmanuel Levinas • xv TO RETURN IN A NEW WAY: INTRODUCTION • 1 Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder 1. THE BREATHING OF THE AIR: PRESOCRATIC ECHOES IN LEVINAS • 9 Silvia Benso 2. THE ETERNAL AND THE NEW: SOCRATES AND LEVINAS ON DESIRE AND NEED • 24 Deborah Achtenberg 3. LEVINAS QUESTIONING PLATO ON EROS AND MAIEUTICS • 40 Francisco J. Gonzalez 4. GETTING UNDER THE SKIN: PLATONIC MYTHS IN LEVINAS • 62 Tanja Stähler 5. LENDING ASSISTANCE ALWAYS TO ITSELF: LEVINAS’ INFINITE CONVERSATION WITH PLATONIC DIALOGUE • 79 Michael Naas 6. ETHICS AS FIRST PHILOSOPHY: ARISTOTELIAN REFLECTIONS ON INTELLIGENCE, SENSIBILITY, AND TRANSCENDENCE • 103 Claudia Baracchi 7. ARISTOTLE AND LEVINAS ON WAR AND PEACE: THE ONE AGAINST THE OTHER • 127 Catriona Hanley 8. STOIC ETHICS AND TOTALITY IN LIGHT OF LEVINASIAN ALTERITY • 144 Julie Piering 9. OF A NON-SAYING THAT SAYS NOTHING: LEVINAS AND PYRRHONISM • 165 Pierre Lamarche 10. THE TIME AND LANGUAGE OF MESSIANISM: LEVINAS AND SAINT PAUL • 178 Bettina Bergo 11. PROXIMITY IN DISTANCE: LEVINAS AND PLOTINUS • 196 John Izzi 12. A TRACE OF THE ETERNAL RETURN? LEVINAS AND NEOPLATONISM • 210 Brian Schroeder 13. ETHICS AND PREDESTINATION IN AUGUSTINE AND LEVINAS • 230 Thomas J. J. Altizer List of Contributors • 243 Index • 247 Contents x ...