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THE ETHICS OF EMMANUEL LEVINAS Cultural Memory zn the Present Mieke Bal and Hent de Vries, Editors THE ETHICS OF EMMANUEL LEVINAS Diane Perpich STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 2008 Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2008 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Perpich, Diane. The ethics of Emmanuel Levinas I Diane Perpich. p. cm.-(Culrural memory in the present) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-o-8047-5942-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-o-8047-5943-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) r. Levinas, Emmanuel-Ethics. 2. Responsibility. 3· Other (Philosophy) I. Title. II. Series. B2430.L484P 465 2008 170.92-dc22 Contents Abbreviations IX Prefoce and Acknowledgments Xttt Introduction: But Is It Ethics? 1 Alterity: The Problem ofTranscendence 2 Singularity: The Unrepresentable Face 3 Responsibility: The Infinity of the Demand 4 Ethics: Normativity and Norms 5 Scarce Resources? Levinas, Animals, and the Environment 6 Failures of Recognition and the Recognition of Failure: Levinas and Identity Politics 177 Notes I99 Works Cited 2IJ Index 227 Abbreviations WORKS BY LEVINAS AT Alterite et transcendence. Paris: Fata Morgana, 1995. BPW Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings. Edited by Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley, and Robert Bernas coni. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. CPP Collected Philosophical Papers. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987. DE Discovering Existence with Husser!. Translated and edited by Richard A. Cohen and Michael B. Smith. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1998. DF Difficult Freedom: Essays on judaism. Translated by Sean Hand. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. EDE En decouvrant !'existence avec Husser! et Heidegger. Paris: J. Vrin, 1988. EE Existence and Existents. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. The Hague: Nijhoff Press, 1978. EI Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Philippe Nemo. Trans lated by Richard A. Cohen. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1985. EN Entre Nous: Thinking-ofthe-Other. Translated by Michael B. Smith and Barbara Harshav. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. GCM Of God Who Comes to Mind Translated by Bettina Bergo. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. IR Is It Righteous to Be? Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas. Edited by Jill Robbins. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. x Abbreviations LR The Levinas Reader. Edited by Sean Hand. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1989. NTR Nine Talmudic Readings. Translated with an introduction by Annette Aronowicz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. OB Otherwise Than Being, or Beyond Essence. Translated by Al phonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1998. OE On Escape. Translated by Bettina Bergo. Stanford, CA: Stan ford University Press, 2003. OS Outside the Subject. Translated by Michael B. Smith. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. RPH "Reflections on the Philosophy ofHiderism" (translated by Sean Hand). Critical Inquiry q, no. 1 (Autumn 1990): 62-71. TI Totality and Infinity. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pitts burgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969. TIHP The Theory ofI ntuition in Husserls Phenomenology. Translated by Andre Orianne. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1973. TO Time and the Other. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pitts burgh: Duquesne University Press, 1987. "Trace" "The Trace of the Other." In Deconstruction in Context, edited by Mark C. Taylor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. OTHER WORKS BPP Martin Heidegger. The Basic Problems ofP henomenology. Translation, introduction, and lexicon by Albert Hofstadter. Rev. ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. BT Martin Heidegger. Being and Time. Translated by John Mac quarrie and Edward Robinson. New York: Harper Collins, 1962. BW Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings. Edited by David Farrell Krell. New York: Harper & Row, 1977· HCT Martin Heidegger. History oft he Concept of Time: Prolegom ena. Translated by Theodore Kisiel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
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