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..., contemporary art, and readings of Nietzsche, Marx, and Levinas, the article attempts to formulate the following question: Why does money need a mask? Copyright © 2018 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2018 money mask prosopopoeia At the Prada Foundation in Milan, I recently visited an exhibition...

... responsibility on the self. I will explore how an ethical demand interrupts and con- stitutes subjectivity in Emmanuel Levinas’s thought. In becoming accountable to others, the self can no longer protect its autonomy by depicting itself as a victim. Tragic Death and Its Alternatives In tragic art...

... in excess of any order stained with blood, vomit, pus, piss, shit, agony, weeping, terror. The diagram is what poses the formality of the problem of escape from the sequence that it is. In his early essay De l’évasion, from 1935, Emmanuel Levinas insists that “The need for escape—whether fi lled...

... the universal, it is precisely this paradoxical aspect of Judaism that renders elements of its prophetic tradition more radical (if we are to use such terms) than Pauline Christianity." In the thought of Emmanual Levinas, whose combination of phenomenology with Judaism seems to be the unmentioned...

... Christianity." In the thought of Emmanual Levinas, whose combination of phenomenology with Judaism seems to be the unmentioned ghost stalking 2i2ek's already rather haunted text, 214 REVIEW ESSAY the transcendence revealed in the face of the unique human being is what sets...

.... For the most part, Meister follows Levinas in calling for an “ethics of substitution” over the virtues of recognition, promoting a perspectival realism of what Levinas would call “incomparable ones.” The self is preceded by a proximity and responsibility to the other, which Meister reads out of both...

... indeed, I find—and will attempt to demonstrate—that Wittgenstein’s philosophy finds felicitous interlocutors in thinkers associated with “theory” or “suspicion” or both, such as G. W. F. Hegel, Theodor W. Adorno, and Emmanuel Levinas. In fact, this essay builds on efforts in the preceding decades...

... back to the other ghost who faces me from the opposite side of the table.11 That the threat of violence “haunts” the pre-performative yes, however, is not precisely to be lamented. As Derrida develops else- where, particularly in his reading of Emmanuel Levinas in “Vio...

..., and Other Fantasies in Interwar France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). Jacques Derrida, Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Mark Donnelly...

... Diner, Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2000). John Drabinski, Sensibility and Singularity: The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001...

... to Levinas' readers in 1961, has been decid- ed.' Today, when moral claims are everywhere suspected, and no one wants to be duped, it seems that what is of the highest impor- tance is not to know the answer, as Levinas implied, but to reopen the question itself, i.e...

... in contemporary critical theory, he has published Sensibility and Singularity (2001) and Godard between Identity and Difference (2008); he has co-ed- ited Between Levinas and Heidegger (2010). His current research includes a recently completed book-length study of Édouard Glissant’s poetics...

..., Brinkema departs from the diagram of The Human Centipede she has been trac(k)ing, for the philosophical-textual world of Emmanuel Levinas. Brinkema’s statements tumble into Levinas’s ethical vocabulary and conceptual networks, all the while harkening back to the images, diagrammatic and fl eshy...

... that some measure of their feelings is driven by the hope of advantage or the need to stay on the good side of the powerful. Dogs do not know status. Emmanuel Levinas tells a small story that makes this point. It is about a dog—Bobby—who befriended him and his fellow prisoners in a Nazi labor camp...

...- ience of creativity in wartime. Currently, she is a fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. takashi minatomichi is professor of philosophy at Konan University. He is the author of several books, including Levinas: An Extraordinary Thought. He has also...

... Merleau-Ponty (The Visible and the Invisible) and Emmanuel Levinas (Existence and Existents; Totality and Infinity; and Otherwise Than Being). stefania pandolfo is an associate professor in the Department of An- thropology at the University of California, Berkeley...

... in a unity based on dominant cultural translations that in effect represses what is too different and/or challenging, that renders difference into “Same,” or “Totality,” as rightly criticized by both Levinas and Dussel, and many others.4 It is based on a view that is not only...

... to Be? Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). Benjamin Roger, Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). Bertrand Russell, The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell...

... and Levinas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). Kelsey Wood, Troubling Play: Meaning and Entity in Plato's Parmenides (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005). Alexei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More...

... be understood as an ultimate escape or breakout from the prison of individuated being, following Levinas, who writes: escape is the need to get out of oneself, that is, to break that most radical and unalterably binding of chains, the fact that the I [moi] is oneself [soi...