Table of Contents

Selections:

Is Ontology Fundamental?
Transcendence and Height
Meaning and Sense
Enigma and Phenomenon
Substitution
Truth of Disclosure and Truth of Testimony
Essence and Disinterestedness
God and Philosophy
Transcendence and Intelligibility
Peace and Proximity

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This reader offers a key selection of Emmanuel Levinas's most important philosophical writings.

About the Author

ADRIAAN T. PEPERZAK is the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. He is author of To the Other: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. SIMON CRITCHLEY is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is author of The Ethics of Deconstruction and Very Little . . . Almost Nothing. ROBERT BERNASCONI is Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is author of The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being.

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"... an excellent introduction to the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas." - The Jerusalem Post