Table of Contents

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments Preface iii Introduction iii Epitaph for the Handshake iii @toc2:1. A Gesture Most Tactful: Rilke's Second Duino Elegy 000 2. Measure in and : Learning a Gentle Restraint 000 3. Freedom in Right Measure: H"lderlin's Anguished Question 000 4. What Measure Now? A Survivor's Reflections on the Holocaust 000 5. The Invisible Hands of Capital and Labor: Using Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology to Understand Alienation in Marx's Theory of Manual Labor 000 6. Keeping Up Appearances: The Dialectic of Tact in Adorno 000 7. What Is Left Intact: Reading the Hand in Benjamin's Writings 000 8. Usage and Dispensation: Heidegger's Meditation on the Hand 000 9. Two Hands Touching: Chiasmatic Gestures in Merleau- Ponty 000 10. Arrhythmia in the Messianic Epokhe: Opening the Gate with Levinasian Gestures 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index of Proper Names 000+

About the Author

David Michael Kleinberg Levin is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.

Reviews

"David Kleinberg-Levin is nothing if not a thinker who has always tried to save philosophy from itself. Gestures of Ethical Life is a book of careful close readings, lucid articulations of concepts, and critical counterstatements. In the bargain it is beautifully written - a rare achievement even in the best of times, whenever they might have been." - Gerald L. Bruns, Continental Philosophy Review "This is a book for our troubled times. It speaks to the most pressing current dilemmas ... [Kleinberg-Levin], in an utterly engaging way, takes us on a fascinating voyage that includes the testimony of British laborers, the thinking of venture capitalists, the life of the bourgeosie, and ancient as well as contemporary theorists. The book ranges across virtually the entirety of dilemmas into which contemporary existence has plunged us - always with insight, inspiration, wit, and a sense of hope. This is an extraordinary work, original in its vision and deep in its resources. It is a premier work in continental philosophy, at the cutting edge of this ever-expanding field of work. It is, in short, a genuine tour de force." - Edward S. Casey, SUNY at Stony Brook