Levinas and the Ancients

List of Contributors

Contributors Thomas J. J. Altizer is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Stony Brook University. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Self-Identity of God, Genesis and Apocalypse, The Genesis of God, and mostly recently, Godhead and the Nothing and Living the Death ofGod. Deborah Achtenberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her previous work, centering on the relation between ethics and metaphysics for Aristotle, includes Cognition ofValue in Aristotle’s Ethics: Promise of Enrichment, Threat ofDestruction. In her current work, a book in progress on Levinas and Plato, she continues to pursue her interest in the relation between ethics and metaphysics. Claudia Baracchi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Her research interests include ancient philosophy, nineteenthand twentieth-century Continental philosophy, philosophy of history, feminist thought, philosophy of art, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the author of various articles on these areas and of the books OfMyth, Lif e and War in Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Ethics as First Philosophy. She is currently working on two book-length projects, one on the question of nature and one on war from a philosophical as well as psychoanalytical perspective. Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology. In addition to several articles on Levinas, especially in his relation to various philosophers such as Plato, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, she is author of Pensare dopo Auschwitz: Etica filosofica e teodicea ebraica; The Face ofThings: A Dif f erent Side of Ethics; and Pensare ambientalista. Tra filosofia e ecologia, with Brian Schroeder, with whom she is also co-editor of Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders ofEthics, Politics, and Religion. Bettina Bergo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Montreal. She is author of Levinas Between Ethics and Politics and co-editor of an anthology of Levinas’ work entitled Levinas’ Contribution to Contemporary Thought (Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 1998). She has translated three works of Levinas and 243 M. Zarader’s The Unthought Debt: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage, and she is cotranslator of Judéités: Questions à Jacques Derrida. The author of articles on Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, feminism, and psychoanalysis, she is currently working on a history of anxiety in nineteenth-century philosophy and psychoanalysis. Francisco J. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at Skidmore College. He is author of Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato’s Practice of Philosophical Inquiry and editor of The Third Way: New Directions in Platonic Studies. His publications also include a wide variety of articles on Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger, and contemporary hermeneutics. He recently completed a book entitled Plato and Heidegger: A Question ofDialogue. Catriona Hanley is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola College in Maryland . She is author of Being and God in Aristotle and Heidegger: The Role ofMethod in Thinking the Infinite. Her primary interests are metaphysics and epistemology in the Greek and Continental traditions. She is the author of various articles on the confluence of Greek and German thought, with a special interest in the relationship between Levinas and Heidegger. More recently, she has become interested in using classical thinkers to enlighten current political events. Currently she is working on a book on the concept of panic. John Izzi is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont . His interests include, in addition to contemporary French thought and Neoplatonism , Spinoza and Nietzsche. He received the doctorate in philosophy at the University of Paris–Sorbonne. Pierre Lamarche is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University. He has published broadly on the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, Kofman, Derrida, Blanchot, Proust, Bataille, and Hellenistic Skepticism. He is co-editor of a forthcoming volume on Antonio Negri, and is currently completing a manuscript on Heidegger and Benjamin. Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is author of Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy and Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies ofDeconstruction. He is the co-translator or co-editor of seven books by Jacques Derrida, including Adieu: To Emmanuel Levinas; Chaque f ois unique, la fin du monde; and Rogues: two essays on reason. Adriaan Peperzak is the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of numerous works, including To the Other; BeContributors 244 yond; Bef ore Ethics; Modern Freedom: Hegel’s Legal...