Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate

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B R I A N T R E A N O R Aspects of Alterity Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York 2006 Copyright 䉷 2006 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Treanor, Brian. Aspects of alterity : Levinas, Marcel, and the contemporary debate / Brian Treanor. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Perspectives in continental philosophy ; 54) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-2684-9 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8232-2684-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Other (Philosophy) 2. Lévinas, Emmanuel. 3. Marcel, Gabriel, 1889–1973. I. Title. BN213.T74 2006 194—dc22 2006036537 Printed in the United States of America 08 07 06 5 4 3 2 1 First edition For Gitty, Darya, and Ciara The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature ...