Face to Face with Levinas

Contents

Contents Preface Vll Acknowledgments IX Key to Abbreviations XI Introduction I. PROXIMITY 1. Dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas 13 Emmanuel Levinas and Richard Kearney 2. Bad Conscience and the Inexorable 35 Emmanuel Levinas 3. Our Clandestine Companion Maurice Blanchot II. FROM ETHICS TO PHILOSOPHY 4. Reason as One for Another: Moral and Theoretical Argument Steven G. Smith 5. LeviTlas' Question Charles William Reed 6. An Ethical Transcendental Philosophy Theodore de Boer 41 53 73 83 VI CONTENTS 7. Levinas' Logic Jean-Fran~ois Lyotard 8. Skrpticism and Reason Jan de Greef 9. Levinas and Derrida: The Question of the Closure of Metaphysics Robert Bernasconi III. CONTEXTS 10. Some Remarks on Hegel, Kant, and Levinas Adriaan Peperzak 11. The Sensuality and the Smsitivity Alphonso Lingis 12. The Fecundity of the Caress Luce Irigaray Emmanuel Levinas: Selected Hibliography Contributors Index 117 159 181 205 219 231 257 259 263 ...