Morally-Demanding Infinite Responsibility: The Supererogatory Attitude of Levinasian Normativity

Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Introduction—The Moral Demandingness of Infinite Responsibility
	1.1 Impartialism and the Problems of Supererogation and Moral-Demandingness
	1.2 Infinite Demandingness: Emmanuel Levinas’s Supererogatory Attitude
	1.3 A Note on the Envisaged Readership of the Study
	1.4 Chapter Synopses
	References
Part IMoral Demandingness
2 The Demandingness of Supererogation
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Mapping Supererogation
	2.3 Sacrifice and the Appeal to Cost
		2.3.1 The Asymmetry of Supererogation and the Perspectival Problem
	2.4 Supererogatory Autonomy
	2.5 Moral Demandingness and Impartialism
		2.5.1 Impartialism
		2.5.2 Overdemanding Morality
		2.5.3 Overweening Morality
		2.5.4 Saintly Morality
	2.6 Conclusion
	References
3 Assimilating Supererogation, Tempering Demandingness
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 The Normative and Meta-Ethical Problems of Supererogation
		3.2.1 Kantian Reductionism: Perfect and Imperfect Duties
	3.3 Utilitarian Reductionism: Sacrifice and Saving Lives
		3.3.1 Challenges to the LSA
		3.3.2 Theoretical Underpinnings of the LSA—The Problem with the Sacrifice Principle
	3.4 Conclusion
	References
4 Primitive Moral Responsiveness and Supererogatory Attitudes
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Supererogatory Attitudes
		4.2.1 Forgiveness
		4.2.2 The Phenomenology of Supererogation
	4.3 Moral Incapacity and the Perspectival Problem of Supererogation
	4.4 Primitive Moral Responses
		4.4.1 Sympathy as a Primitive Response and an Attitude
		4.4.2 Empathy and Moral Imagination
	4.5 Conclusion
	References
5 Morally-Demanding Infinite Responsibility: An Analytic-Continental Segue
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 The Analytic and Continental Philosophical Traditions
	5.3 The Possibility of Impossibility
	5.4 Why Levinas?
	5.5 Conclusion
	References
Part IIInfinite Responsibility
6 Levinasian Ethics
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 The Other and the Same
		6.2.1 Ethics as First Philosophy (or Metaphysics Precedes Ontology)
		6.2.2 Totality
		6.2.3 Infinity
	6.3 The Epiphanic Face
		6.3.1 The Signification of the Face
		6.3.2 The Face as Discourse and Discourse as an Attitude
		6.3.3 Sensibility as Proximity to the Other
	6.4 Asymmetry and Infinite Responsibility
		6.4.1 Substitution: Hyperbolic Infinite Responsibility
		6.4.2 The Saying and the Said
	6.5 Conclusion
	References
7 Levinasian Politics and Constructing Levinasian Normativity
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Politics and the Third
	7.3 Levinasian Normativity and the Autonomy of Undecidability
		7.3.1 The Quasi-Transcendental and Skepticism
	7.4 Constructing Normativity: The Provisional Imperative
	7.5 Infinite Response-Ability as Infinite Representation
	7.6 Conclusion
	References
8 Supererogation Reconceptualised as Levinasian Normativity
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Reinscribing Taylorian Primitive Moral Responsiveness into the Moral Responsiveness of Levinasian Normativity
	8.3 Supererogation Reconceptualised as Levinasian Normativity
	8.4 Saints and Sacrifice
		8.4.1 The (Im)Possibility of Sacrifice
		8.4.2 False Dichotomies: Moral Iteration and Aggregation
	8.5 Objections to a Reconceptualised Supererogation
		8.5.1 Supererogation as Levinasian Normativity Is Banal
		8.5.2 If Levinasian Normativity Dissolves the Problem of Supererogation Why Retain the Concept?
		8.5.3 Supererogation as Levinasian Normativity Is Too Morally Demanding
	8.6 Conclusion
	References
9 The Whistleblower as Subject of Levinasian Normativity
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Whistleblowing Ethics
		9.2.1 The Whistleblower as Ethical Boundary of the Organisation
		9.2.2 Provisional Organisational Boundaries and Relational Responsiveness
	9.3 The Choiceless Choice of Whistleblower Sacrifice
		9.3.1 The (Im)Possibility of Whistleblowing Sacrifice
		9.3.2 The Undecidability of Choiceless Choice
	9.4 Conclusion
	References
10 The Analytic-Continental Divide as Chiasmus
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 The (Im)Possibility of Moral Skepticism
	10.3 Provisional Ethico-Politico Solutions to Supererogation and Moral-Demandingness
	10.4 Conclusion
	References