Emmanuel Levinas and His Interlocutors

Introduction

First Gate: Dialogue with Teachers

1. In Search of Universalism in Judaism:

Léon Brunschvicg in the Eyes of Emmanuel Levinas

2. Responsibility beyond Heidegger:

Ethical Dwelling and the Glory of Bearing Witness

3. The Meaning of Dialogue in Levinas’s Philosophy:

Levinas Versus Buber

4. A Philosopher in the Eye of the Storm:

Monsieur Chouchani and Levinas’s “Nameless” Essay

Second Gate: Sociopolitical Dialogues

5. Jewish Identity beyond Halakhah: Levinas Following Buber from Spiritual Renewal to an Ethical and Just Society

6. Thinking about Ethical Politics:

Gandhi’s Spirituality Versus Levinas’s Philosophy

Third Gate: New Questions for Religious Beliefs

7. The Immense House of Postcards:

The Idea of Tradition Following Levinas and Derrida

8. Theodicy as the Justified Demands of Atheism:

Yeshayahu Leibowitz Versus Emmanuel Levinas

9. Beyond Forgiveness and the Impossibility of Forgiveness:

Levinas Versus Spinoza

Fourth Gate: Ethical Interpretation

10. In the Garden of Postmodern Interpretation with

Derrida and Levinas

11. When Philosophers Read the Talmud:

Levinas, R. Kook, and R. Soloveitchik

12. The Phenomenology of Pregnancy, Maternity, and Parenthood

in R. Soloveitchik and Levinas

Appendix to Gate Four

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index