The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians

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The Exorbitant Series Board James Bernauer Drucilla Cornell Thomas R. Flynn Kevin Hart Richard Kearney Jean-Luc Marion Adriaan Peperzak Thomas Sheehan Hent de Vries Merold Westphal Michael Zimmerman John D. Caputo, series editor PERSPECTIVES IN CO N T I N E N TA L P H I L O S O P H Y E d i t e d b y K E V I N H A R T a n d M I C H A E L A . S I G N E R The Exorbitant Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York 2010 Copyright 䉷 2010 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. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The exorbitant : Emmanuel Levinas between Jews and Christians / edited by Kevin Hart and Michael A. Signer. p. cm.— (Perspectives in continental philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-3015-0 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8232-3016-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Lévinas, Emmanuel. 2. Christianity and other religions—Judaism. 3. Judaism— Relations—Christianity. 4. Christianity. 5. Judaism. 6. Philosophical theology. I. Hart, Kevin, 1954– II. Signer, Michael Alan. B2430.L484E96 2010 194—dc22 2009034004 Printed in the United States of America 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1 First edition In memoriam: Michael A. Signer and Edith Wyschogrod ...