Saying Peace: Levinas, Eurocentrism, Solidarity

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Key to Abbreviations of Works by Levinas
Introduction
Chapter 1 Empty Hands: The Tragic Irony of Totality and Infinity
	I. Introduction
	II. Phenomenology of the “Same”
		II.A. Enjoyment
		II.B. The (Pleasant) Elements
		II.C. The (Horrific) Elements
		II.D. The Feminine and Dwelling
		II.E. Dwelling and Labor
		II.F. “Representation”
	III. Critique
		III.A. Labor and the “Miracle” of Substance
		III.B. Vicious Circularity
		III.C. “Theory”
		III.D. “Anterior Posteriorly”
		III.E. “Conceptless Individual”
	IV. Conclusion
Chapter 2 Of Form and Face in Totality and Infinity
	I. Introduction
	II. Prima Facia: Preliminary Considerations
		II.A. The Face
	III. Critique
		III.A. The Miracle of a “Biological Genus”
		III.B. Expression Kath-Heteron
		III.C. Ethics and “Theory”
		III.D. Eros and Divine “Effectuation”
		III.E. Ontology and “Theory”
	IV. Conclusion
Chapter 3 “Flipping the Deck,” On Totality and Infinity’s Transcendental/Empirical Puzzle
	I. Introduction
	II. Fact or Idea?
		II.A. Levinas Between Realism and Idealism
	III. Levinas’s Method: “Overflowing” Concepts
		III.A. Levinas’s Method: “Reversing” Constitution
		III.B. Levinas’s Method: “Theory”
	IV. Conclusion: Why?
	V. Appendix: Formal Restatement of the Argument
		V.A. Formal Restatement of TI ’s Internal Logic
		V.B. Formal Restatement of Levinas’s Argument
		V.C. Formal Restatement of My Objections
Chapter 4 Ontology and Ethics in Otherwise than Being
	I. Introduction
	II. Levinasian Disinterest
		II.A. Motivational Purity
		II.B. Justified Context-Transcendence
			II.b.i. Levinas’s Critique of Tradition
			II.b.ii. Substitution
			II.b.iii. The Third Party, Justice
	III. Critique
		III.A. Purity and the Will
		III.B. Responsibility and the Will
		III.C. Levinas’s “Method”
		III.D. Arbitrarity
		III.E. Oc-currence versus Re-currence
		III.F. “Diachrony”
		III.G. “Freedom”
		III.H. Reason and Skepticism
	IV. Conclusion
Chapter 5 Levinas, Eurocentrism, Justice
	I. Introduction
	II. Political Justice
		II.A. Levinas and the Palestinians
	III. Judaism and Ethics
		III.A. Singularity and Particularity
		III.B. “Ethics” and “Ontology” in Intercultural Context
	IV. Conclusion
Chapter 6 Levinas: A Life
	I. Early Years
	II. Totality and Infinity
	III. Otherwise Than Being
	IV. Later Life
	V. Death and Legacy
	VI. Conclusion
Chapter 7 Levinas Today
	I. Signs of the Times
	II. The Post-1989 Left
		II.A. The 1960s Coalition
		II.B. The Berlin Wall
		II.C. Post-1989 Left Struggle
		II.D. Post-1989 Left Challenges and Mistakes
			II.d.i. Charlie Hebdo
			II.d.ii. The Euroleft
		II.E. Whence and Why Neo-Nativism?
		II.F. Forward!
			II.f.i. Light’s of Russian Modernity
			II.f.ii. Feminist Philosophy
			II.f.iii. Jewish Philosophy and Theology
			II.f.iv. The Frankfurt School
			II.f.v. Christian Philosophy and Theology
			II.f.v.i. Imperialism
			II.f.v.ii. Orthodoxy and Popular Struggle
	III. Conclusion
Chapter 8 Conclusions and Beginnings
	I. The Shoah
	II. Evaluating Levinas
	III. Normative Potentials in Levinas’s Work
	IV. Reemergent Anti-Semitism
	V. Conclusions and Beginnings
Notes
Bibliography
Name Index