... of rhetorical reading and succeeds admirably. Keenan writes clearly and reasons closely; the opening chapter provides one of the finest discussions of poststructuralist ethics that I know of. It weaves its way expertly among difficult texts by Enimanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Mau- rice Blanchot...

... and several French feminists (especially Irigaray) and the other on Lyotard and Levinas. Both chapters con- firm the significance of the critical investigation of the visual in con- temporary French thought and recall the most interesting moments of the book, which deal directly...

... on. It is appropriate to compare such renewed theories with trains of thought derived from religion. Major theologians find in aesthetic form sturdy allies and useful analogies. The names of Hans Urs von Balthasar in Catholicism and Emanuel Levinas in Judaism come to mind...

... people, but it refuses normative modern politics and economics by contesting the notion of an interested indi- vidual. Viewing Emersonian transcendence in this light places it closer to Emmanuel Levinas’s idea of transcendence through the other than to 266...

...], 81). On Psalm 62:11 as a “call to exegesis” see Emmanuel Levinas, BeyondtheVerse:TalmudicReadingsandLecturesBeyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures,trans.GaryD.Mole(Bloomington:, trans. Gary D. Mole (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), 132. 28...

... intimacy, at first ignorance of intimacy, at first ignorant moments side by side, touching and without relation.] (Blanchot 1997: 14)11 11 In his 1966 essay on L’attente, l’oubli Emmanuel Levinas (1996: 148) describes Blanchot’s words as a “language of pure transcendence without...

... of thinkers—exemplified by Henry More, Bernard de Mandeville, Emmanuel Levinas, and Derrida—have recognized the kinship of the animal voice. Chapter 2 focuses on eighteenth-century philosophers in the sentimental tradition, especially Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who ground social...

... satisfaction of hunger, participants concede the illusion of such mastery, the illusion of nondependency, and, if only temporarily, embrace an unwilled relationality, an interdependent state of being not one-among-many but one- of -many. 19 If, according to Emmanuel Levinas ( 1991 : 213), the other is what...

...- ish philosophy, reaching from Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig to Emmanuel Levinas and Stanley Cavell, concerns the importance of voice.26 The emphasis on voice is not a return to or an endorsement of logocentricism or metaphysics. It is not mysticism. Rather, it locates what Cavell...

.... Gubar could have immersed herself in the likes of Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Der- rida, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Jean-François Lyotard and written a philo- sophical treatise on mimesis, history, and memory that occasionally referred to particular works of art to buttress its theoretical edifice...

.... This line of argument is not new, of course. One can find ana- logues in virtually every thinker identified with poststructuralism. Gubar could have immersed herself in the likes of Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Der- rida, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Jean-François Lyotard and written a philo- sophical treatise...

... find ana- logues in virtually every thinker identified with poststructuralism. Gubar could have immersed herself in the likes of Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Der- rida, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Jean-François Lyotard and written a philo- sophical treatise on mimesis, history, and memory that occasionally...

... find ana- logues in virtually every thinker identified with poststructuralism. Gubar could have immersed herself in the likes of Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Der- rida, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Jean-François Lyotard and written a philo- sophical treatise on mimesis, history, and memory that occasionally...

.... Gubar could have immersed herself in the likes of Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Der- rida, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Jean-François Lyotard and written a philo- sophical treatise on mimesis, history, and memory that occasionally referred to particular works of art to buttress its theoretical edifice...

... find ana- logues in virtually every thinker identified with poststructuralism. Gubar could have immersed herself in the likes of Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Der- rida, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Jean-François Lyotard and written a philo- sophical treatise on mimesis, history, and memory that occasionally...

..., is anyone’s guess, and even the chronological section of the book is covert about its chronology, since Hamilton’s lines of inquiry are more theoretical than historical. (Hamilton is theoretically minded, in an eclectic way: he cites Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jacques...

... of inquiry are more theoretical than historical. (Hamilton is theoretically minded, in an eclectic way: he cites Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben en passant but does not, in this book about interpretability, look into herme- neutics, the theory...

..., Theodor W. Adorno, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben en passant but does not, in this book about interpretability, look into herme- neutics, the theory of interpretation.) There is no conclusion that might tie together the various self-contained chapters. One finishes the book...

..., Theodor W. Adorno, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben en passant but does not, in this book about interpretability, look into herme- neutics, the theory of interpretation.) There is no conclusion that might tie together the various self-contained chapters. One finishes the book...

..., is anyone’s guess, and even the chronological section of the book is covert about its chronology, since Hamilton’s lines of inquiry are more theoretical than historical. (Hamilton is theoretically minded, in an eclectic way: he cites Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jacques...