Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics Book

	Acknowledgments
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
	Abbreviations of Works by Levinas
I	Early Themes	1
	Being and Beginning	2
	Indolence and Fatigue	4
	Being-in-General: The il y a	7
	Dasein and Hypostasis	10
	Need, Desire, and the World	18
II	Husserl and the Problem of Ontology	28
	Phenomenological Method and Ontology	29
	Naturalistic Ontology and Psychologism	31
	The Problem of Intentionality	34
	The Meaning of Essences	40
	The Phenomenological Reduction	45
	Intentionality as Movement	46
	The Break with Husserl	48
III	From Self to Same	56
	The Self as Life	57
	Human Corporeity and Need	64
	Life and the Elemental	67
	Habitation	71
	Art and the Elemental	76
IV	The Foundation of Ethical Metaphysics	84
	What Separated Being Means	85
	Totality and Exteriority	88
	The Face and the Problem of Appearance	90
	The Break with Ontology	93
	The Idea of the Infinite	97
	Metaphysics and Justice	102
V	Beyond Temporality	113
	Violence and Time	114
	Being-toward-Death	119
	The Phenomenology of Love	126
	The Phenomenon of Transcendence	132
	Fecundity	133
	Temporality and Infinity	136
VI	What Is Language?	141
	Language and Discourse	142
	An Alternative View of Language	153
	The Trace	158
	Responsibility	164
VII	Philosophy and the Covenant	176
	What Judaism Means	176
	Historical Method and Traditional Texts	185
	The Phenomenon of Atonement	188
	Jewish Messianism: The Break with Totality	194
	The Temptation of Modernity	208
	The Meaning of Society	214
VIII	Conclusion	222
	The Objectivity of Values	222
	Morality and Metaphysics	228
	Language	234
	The Idea of the Infinite	236
	Key to Special Terminology	243
	Works Cited	247
	Index	253