Preface and acknowledgments

Key to abbreviations

Secularization and hunger

Emmanuel Levinas

3-12

Emmanuel Levinas: ethics as primary meaning

Stéphane Moses

13-24

A note concerning the ontological indifference

Jean-Luc Marion

25-40

Ethics and ontology

Some "hypocritical" considerations

Jean Greisch

41-69

Practical necessity

Alphonso Lingis

71-82

On obligation

Lyotard and Levinas

Hent De Vries

83-112

Excess: toward the outside, or humanity

Gérard Bailhache

115-138

Of substitution that is not usurpation

Jan De Greef

139-152

Phenomenon and infinity

Marc Richir

153-184

Cultural significations and ethical sense

On Emmanuel Levinas

Francis Guibal

189-218

Appearances

Charles E. Scott

219-231

The uncanny origin of ethics

Gift, interruption or...?

James Faulconer

233-247

To think utopia otherwise

Miguel Abensour

251-279

The messianic utopia

Catherine Chalier

281-296

Levinas and the "logic" of solidarity

Merold Westphal

297-319

The anarchy of the spectacle

Emmanuel Levinas on separated subjectivity and the myth of gyges

Travis Anderson

321-334

To love God for nothing

Levinas and Spinoza

Richard Cohen

339-352

Height and the sublime

François Marty

355-366

The alterity of the other

Pierre-Jean Labarrière

369-385

Derrida, Levinas, and the lives of philosophy at the death of philosophy

A reading of Derrida's misreading of Levinas in "violence and metaphysics"

Robert Manning

387-405

The posteriority of the anterior

Fabio Ciaramelli

409-425

The non-identity of time

Ludwig Wenzler

427-438

Outside the subject

Levinas's Jewish perspective on time

Alfred Tauber

439-459

Death in its negativity

Jacques Rolland

461-494

On suffering

Epitaph for Emmanuel Levinas

Pierre Trotignon

495-502

The temporality of saying

Politics beyond the ontological difference

Tina Chanter

503-528

s. rosen, Plato's statesman

Jacob Howland

529-536

Books received

Notes on contributors