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Aspects of Alterity .................16272$ $$FM 11-20-0613:58:56 PS PAGEi SeriesBoard JamesBernauer DrucillaCornell ThomasR.Flynn Kevin Hart Jean-LucMarion AdriaanPeperzak RichardKearney ThomasSheehan HentdeVries MeroldWestphal Edith Wyschogrod MichaelZimmerman .................16272$ $$FM 11-20-0613:58:56 PS PAGEii John D. Caputo, series editor PERSPECTIVESIN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY .................16272$ $$FM 11-20-0613:58:57 PS PAGEiii .................16272$ $$FM 11-20-0613:58:57 PS PAGEiv BRIAN TREANOR Aspects of Alterity Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS NewYork 2006 .................16272$ $$FM 11-20-0613:58:57 PS PAGEv Copyright(cid:2)2006FordhamUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedina retrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans—electronic, mechanical,photocopy,recording,oranyother—exceptforbriefquotationsin printedreviews,withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublisher. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Treanor,Brian. Aspectsofalterity:Levinas,Marcel,andthecontemporarydebate/Brian Treanor.—1sted. p. cm.—(Perspectivesincontinentalphilosophy;54) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-0-8232-2684-9(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN-10:0-8232-2684-0(cloth:alk.paper) 1. Other(Philosophy) 2. Le´vinas,Emmanuel. 3. Marcel,Gabriel, 1889–1973. I. Title. BN213.T74 2006 194—dc22 2006036537 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 08 07 06 5 4 3 2 1 Firstedition .................16272$ $$FM 11-20-0613:58:57 PS PAGEvi For Gitty, Darya, and Ciara .................16272$ $$FM 11-20-0613:58:57 PS PAGEvii Thestarsawakenacertainreverence,becausethoughalwayspresent, theyareinaccessible... RalphWaldoEmerson,Nature .................16272$ $$FM 11-20-0613:58:58 PS PAGEviii Contents Acknowledgments xi 1 TheQuestionofOtherness 1 2 EmmanuelLevinas 11 3 GabrielMarcel 52 4 TranscendentalPhilosophy 92 5 ConcretePhilosophy 122 6 TheOtherandGod 150 7 TheNatureofOtherness 196 Notes 271 SelectedBibliography 339 Index 349 ix .................16272$ CNTS 11-20-0613:58:59 PS PAGEix .................16272$ CNTS 11-20-0613:59:00 PS PAGEx

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Every other is truly other, but no other is wholly other.This is the claim that Aspects of Alterity defends. Taking up the question of otherness that so fascinates contemporary continental philosophy, this book asks what it means for something or someone to be other than the self. Levinas and those
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