Description
Book SynopsisDevoted to the relationship between Levinas and Kierkegaard, this volume sets forth a comparison and sustained engagement between them.
Trade Review"Presents a variety of perspectives on the relation of Levinas and Kierkegaard and represents a debate on how to read these two together and against each other." —Merold Westphal, Fordham University
"A book of this nature is long overdue." —Martin Beck Matustik, Purdue University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Good Fences May Not Make Good Neighbors After All / J. Aaron Simmons and David Wood
Part 1. Levinas on Kierkegaard
1. The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard / Merold Westphal
2. Existential Appropriations: The Influence of Jean Wahl on Levinas's Reading of Kierkegaard / J. Aaron Simmons
Part 2. On Love and Transcendence
3. Who or What or Whot? / John Llewelyn
4. Kierkegaard and Levinas on Four Elements of the Biblical Love Commandment / M. Jamie Ferreira
5. The Greatest Commandment? Religion and/or Ethics in Kierkegaard and Levinas / Jeffrey Dudiak
Part 3. Time, Alterity, and Eschatology
6. Hearing, Patiently: Time and Salvation in Kierkegaard and Levinas / David Kangas and Martin Kavka
7. Kierkegaard, Levinas, and "Absolute Alterity" / Michael Weston
8. What Kierkegaardian Faith Adds to Alterity Ethics: How Levinas and Derrida Miss the Eschatological Dimension / John J. Davenport
Part 4. Ethico-Political Possibilities
9. The Challenge of Justice: The Ethics of "Upbuilding" / Edith Wyschogrod
10. Levinas and Kierkegaard: Ethics and Politics / Zeynep Direk
11. Works of Justice, Works of Love: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and an Ethics Beyond Difference / Stephen Minister
12. "More Than All the Others": Meditation on Responsibility / Martin Beck Matutík
List of Contributors
Index
