On being human Book

	Dedication	9
	Acknowledgements	11
	Introduction	13
Ch. 1	Philosophical Foundations	23
1.1	Bernard Lonergan's Philosophical Background	24
1.2	Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophical Background	38
1.3	Compatible Terrain	48
1.4	Conflicting Traditions and Assumptions	57
Ch. 2	The Open Posture of Lonergan's Subject	61
2.1	Transition from Faculty Psychology to Intentionality Analysis	62
2.2	Lonergan's Authentic Subject	73
2.3	Openness of the Subject as Gift	82
2.4	The Embodiment's of Lonergan's Subject	86
Ch. 3	Levinas's Subject as Postured for-the-Other	93
3.1	Levinas's Notion of the Face	94
3.2	Implications of Openness	102
3.3	Subjectivity as a Posture of Openness for-the-Other	107
3.4	The Corporeality of Levinas's Subject	121
Ch. 4	The Issue of Alterity	127
4.1	Problems in Interpreting Otherness	128
4.2	Lonergan on Being Human in the Midst of the Other	139
4.3	Revisiting Levinas's Other	146
Ch. 5	Figuring Subjectivity in Postmodern Context: The Protean Subject	157
5.1	Openness as Gift as Answer to Postmodern Questions of Otherness	160
5.2	The Connection between Openness and Freedom	171
5.3	Openness: An Invitation to Solidarity	175
5.4	A Figure of Open Embodied Subjectivity: The Protean Subject	183
Ch. 6	Conclusion	193
6.1	Avenues for Further Theological and Philosophical Research	194
6.2	Evaluation of the Dialogue between Lonergan and Levinas	201
	Bibliography	208
	Index	219