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The Oxford Handbook of L E V I NA S The Oxford Handbook of LEVINAS Edited by MICHAEL L. MORGAN 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2019 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Morgan, Michael L., 1944– editor. Title: The Oxford handbook of Levinas / [edited by] Michael L. Morgan. Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017053677 | ISBN 9780190455934 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Lévinas, Emmanuel. Classification: LCC B2430.L484 M6745 2018 | DDC 194—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017053677 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America About the Editor Michael L. Morgan is the Chancellor’s Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies (emeritus) at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1975. From 2015 to 2018, he was the Senator Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy at the University of Toronto (emeritus). He is an Honorary Professor of the Australian Catholic University and has taught at Northwestern, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, and the University of Toronto. He is the author or editor of twenty books. His most recent book, Levinas’s Ethical Politics, was published in May 2016. Contents Acknowledgments xi Contributors xiii Introduction: Reading Levinas Today 1 Michael L. Morgan PART I LIFE, BACKGROUND, AND INFLUENCES 1. Levinas’s Prison Notebooks 21 Sarah Hammerschlag 2. Levinas and the Holocaust 35 Robert Eaglestone 3. Levinas, Blanchot, and Art 53 Kevin Hart 4. Levinas and Husserl 71 Bettina Bergo 5. Levinas and Heidegger: The Elemental Confrontation 103 Michael Fagenblat 6. Levinas and Derrida 135 Edward Baring 7. Levinas Reading the Ancients 155 Tanja Staehler 8. Levinas and Early Modern Philosophy 173 Inga Römer 9. Levinas and German Idealism: Fichte and Hegel 195 Martin Shuster viii Contents PART II MAIN PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES 10. Levinas’s Philosophy of Transcendence 219 Peter J. Giannopoulos 11. Levinas and the Face of the Other 243 Diane Perpich 12. “Subjectivity Must Be Defended”: Substitution, Entanglement, and the Prehistory of the Me in Levinas 259 Robert Bernasconi 13. Levinas, Politics, and the Third Party 279 J. Aaron Simmons 14. Levinas, Darwall, and Løgstrup on Second-P ersonal Ethics: Command or Responsibility? 303 Robert Stern 15. Levinas on God and the Trace of the Other 321 Michael L. Morgan 16. Levinas on Temporality and the Other 343 James R. Mensch 17. Levinas’s Accounts of Messianism 361 Martin Kavka PART III RELIGION AND THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 18. Levinas and the Bible 385 Eli Schonfeld 19. Theological Terms in the Philosophy of Levinas 401 Jeffrey Bloechl 20. Levinas and Christianity 421 Jeffrey Hanson 21. Levinas as a Reader of Jewish Texts: The Talmudic Commentaries 443 Ethan Kleinberg Contents ix 22. Levinas’s Jewish Writings 459 Oona Eisenstadt 23. Levinas’s Ethics, Politics, and Zionism 473 Annabel Herzog PART IV ETHICS BEYOND PHILOSOPHY 24. Levinas and Education 495 Claire Elise Katz 25. Levinas and Film 515 Colin Davis 26. Levinas, Literature, and Philosophy 529 Seán Hand 27. The Question of Food and Philosophy in Levinas 549 Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft 28. Levinas and the Ethics of War and Peace 567 Joshua Shaw 29. Levinas and Analytic Philosophy: An Ethical Metaphysics of Reasons 587 Kevin Houser 30. Levinas and the Law of Torts 615 William H. Smith 31. Levinas and the Critical Philosophy of Race 635 Kris Sealey 32. Levinas on Psychology, Identity, and Caring for Others 657 David M. Goodman and Eric R. Severson PART V CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS OF LEVINAS 33. Levinas on Nature and Naturalism 689 Fiona Ellis 34. Levinas’s Humanism and Anthropocentrism 709 Peter Atterton
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