The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction

THE GIFT OF THE OTHER......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
INTRODUCTION: The Gift of the Other......Page 12
A FEMINIST APPROACH TO LEVINAS......Page 16
A LEVINASIAN APPROACH TO FEMINISM......Page 19
BIRTH, TIME, ETHICS......Page 21
1. The “Facts” of Life:Beauvoir’s Account of Reproduction......Page 26
TAKE 1: B IRTH AS A PROJECT......Page 30
TAKE 2: B IRTH AS AN AMBIGUOUS SITUATION......Page 35
2. The Body Politic:Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction......Page 40
V ITA ACTIVA: LABOR, WORK, ACTION......Page 43
THE TEMPORALITY OF ACTION:PROMISE AND FORGIVENESS......Page 47
THINKING THROUGH NATALITY......Page 52
REPRODUCING NATALITY:CAVARERO’S READING OF ARENDT......Page 55
3. Welcome the Stranger:Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other......Page 60
DERRIDA AND THE G IF T OF THE IMPOSSIBLE......Page 61
CIXOUS AND THE GIFT OF THE FEMININE......Page 64
LEVINAS AND THE GIFT OF HOSPITALITY......Page 68
I AM WELCOMED: FROM ETHOS TO OIKOS......Page 69
YOU ARE WELCOME: FROM OIKOS TO ETHOS......Page 75
4. Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray,and the Transformation of Paternity......Page 86
PATERNITY AS INFINITE DISCONTINUITY......Page 88
OTHERWISE THAN PATERNITY:IRIGARAY READING LEVINAS......Page 95
FROM PATERNITY TO THE MATERNAL BODY:ISAIAH 49......Page 100
5. Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations......Page 106
TIME AND THE MATERNAL BODY......Page 108
ETHICS AND HERETHICS......Page 119
MOSES AND HIS MOTHERS: NUMBERS 11:12......Page 140
6.Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics:The Question of Reproductive Choice......Page 152
DEFENDING THE IMAGINARY DOMAIN:DRUCILLA CORNELL......Page 154
LEVINAS BETWEEN ETHICS AND POLITICS......Page 158
ETHICS, POLITICS, AND THE PROSPECT OF “UNBORN MOTHERS”......Page 166
ALTERED MATERNITIES......Page 172
Notes......Page 176
Bibliography......Page 190
B......Page 198
H......Page 199
M......Page 200
Z......Page 201