Totality and Infinity at 50

Contents

CONTENTS Abbreviations ix Introduction: On a Book in Midlife Crisis 1 Scott Davidson and Diane Perpich 1 • Joy beyond Boredom: Totality and Infinity as a Work of Wonder 11 Silvia Benso 2 • Unspoken Unity: I, Who Enjoy and Desire 29 Stacy Bautista and Adriaan Peperzak 3 • “All that Is Holy Is Profaned”: Levinas and Marx on the Social Relation 57 Asher Horowitz 4 • Emmanuel Levinas as a Philosopher of the Ordinary 79 Michael L. Morgan 5 • The Fundamental Idea of Emmanuel Levinas’s Philosophy 105 Georg W. Bertram 6 • Don’t Try This at Home: Levinas and Applied Ethics 127 Diane Perpich 7 • Law, Ethics, and the Unbounded Duty of Care 153 Desmond Manderson 8 • The Rights of the Other: Levinas and Human Rights 171 Scott Davidson viii Contents 9 • Ethics as Teaching: The Figure of the Master in Totality and Infinity 189 Joëlle Hansel 10 • Turning toward the Other: Ethics, Fecundity, and the Primacy of Education 209 Claire Katz 11 • Future Interval: On Levinas and Glissant 227 John Drabinski 12 • Levinas’s Ethical Critique of Levinasian Ethics 253 Robert Bernasconi Notes 271 About the Contributors 299 Index 303 ...