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Contents Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction: Good Fences May Not Make Good Neighbors After All 1 J. Aaron Simmons and David Wood part one. levinas on kierkegaard 1. The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard 21 Merold Westphal 2. Existential Appropriations: The Influence of Jean Wahl on Levinas’s Reading of Kierkegaard 41 J. Aaron Simmons part two. on love and transcendence 3. Who or What or Whot? 69 John Llewelyn 4. Kierkegaard and Levinas on Four Elements of the Biblical Love Commandment 82 M. Jamie Ferreira 5. The Greatest Commandment? Religion and/or Ethics in Kierkegaard and Levinas 99 Jeffrey Dudiak part three. time, alterity, and eschatology 6. Hearing, Patiently: Time and Salvation in Kierkegaard and Levinas 125 David Kangas and Martin Kavka 7. Kierkegaard, Levinas, and “Absolute Alterity” 153 Michael Weston 8. What Kierkegaardian Faith Adds to Alterity Ethics: How Levinas and Derrida Miss the Eschatological Dimension 169 John J. Davenport viii Contents part four. ethico-political possibilities 9. The Challenge of Justice: The Ethics of “Upbuilding” 199 Edith Wyschogrod 10. Levinas and Kierkegaard: Ethics and Politics 211 Zeynep Direk 11. Works of Justice, Works of Love: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and an Ethics Beyond Difference 229 Stephen Minister 12. “More Than All the Others”: Meditation on Responsibility 244 Martin Beck Matuštík List of Contributors 257 Index 261 ...