The Exorbitant : : Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians / / ed. by Michael A. Singer, Kevin Hart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Batnitzky, Leora,; Bloechl, Jeffrey,; Cohen, Richard A.,; Franks, Paul,; Gibbs, Robert,; Hart, Kevin,; Hollander, Dana,; Horner, Robyn,; Kosky, Jeffrey L.,; Marion, Jean-Luc,; Purcell, Michael,; Signer, Michael A.,; Westphal, Merold,; Wolfson, Elliot R.,; Wyschogrod, Edith,
• HerausgeberIn: Hart, Kevin,; Singer, Michael A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

We are exorbitant, and rightly so, when we cut any link we may have to cosmological powers. Levinas invites us to be exorbitant by distancing ourselves from visions of metaphysics, epistemology, and theology. We begin to listen well to Levinas when we hear him inviting us to break completely with th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Levinas the Exorbitant
• Levinas Between German Metaphysics and Christian Theology
• The Disincarnation of the Word
• Secrecy, Modesty, and the Feminine Kabbalistic Traces in the Thought of Levinas
• Against Theology, or ‘‘The Devotion of a Theology Without Theodicy’’
• Is the Other My Neighbor?
• ‘‘Love Strong as Death’’
• On Levinas’s Gifts to Christian Theology
• The Prevenience and Phenomenality of Grace; or, The Anteriority of the Posterior
• Profligacy, Parsimony, and the Ethics of Expenditure in the Philosophy of Levinas
• Excess and Desire
• The Care of the Other and Substitution
• Should Jews and Christians Fear the Gifts of the Greeks?
• Thinking about God and God-Talk with Levinas
• Words of Peace and Truth
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index
• Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series