Description: Preliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Levinas, Derrida and Others vis-a-vis Ethical metaphysics Facial expression Paradoxical proximity The back of beyond ONE: Responsibility with Indecidability Use and mention Types and performances The paradox of quasi-analysis Sursum corda Before the question TWO: Derrida, Mallarme and Anatole First affirmation Last testament Limited incorporation THREE: The Origin and End of Philosophy Solid sense Implex Resource Prote philosophia FOUR: In the Name of Philosophy In the name of God Two first philosophies. Levinas and Jankelevitch The love of wisdom and the wisdom of love FIVE: What is Orientation in Thinking? Facing the Facts Reason and sentiment Individualism Salvage and salvation Society The delimitation of reason alone SIX: Amen Rosenzweig God's yessence The extraordinary word SEVEN: The Impossibility of Levinas's Death Being dead Why me? Peace and quiet The sting Dust and ashes EIGHT: The Possibility of Heidegger's Death Classical modalities The ontological difference I die therefore I am Summary NINE: sELection TEN: Jewgreek or Greekjew Writing with both hands Souciance Violence and violence ELEVEN: At this Very Moment . . . . A Repetition that is not One Open opus Other passages Interruption Open questions TWELVE: Levinas and Language Structuralism Ontologism Linguistic possessions Nouns, Verbs and Verbal Nouns Pronouns and Pronunciation Saying, Said and Silence The Language of Levinas's Philosophy of Language THIRTEEN: Thresholds What goes on between the affect and the seing? What is the absolute difference? What is transgression? FOURTEEN: Semioethics Signification Meanings The divine nature of language Lessons The word of peace Responsibility and play FIFTEEN: No Happy Ending Affirmation Universality and cultural colonization Teleology and deontology Infinity and totality Woe is me In touch Happiness Politics after Notes Index

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