Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics, and Religion

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Good Fences May Not Make Good Neighbors After All / J. Aaron Simmons and David Wood Part 1. Levinas on Kierkegaard 1. The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard / Merold Westphal 2. Existential Appropriations: The Influence of Jean Wahl on Levinas's Reading of Kierkegaard / J. Aaron Simmons Part 2. On Love and Transcendence 3. Who or What or Whot? / John Llewelyn 4. Kierkegaard and Levinas on Four Elements of the Biblical Love Commandment / M. Jamie Ferreira 5. The Greatest Commandment? Religion and/or Ethics in Kierkegaard and Levinas / Jeffrey Dudiak Part 3. Time, Alterity, and Eschatology 6. Hearing, Patiently: Time and Salvation in Kierkegaard and Levinas / David Kangas and Martin Kavka 7. Kierkegaard, Levinas, and "Absolute Alterity" / Michael Weston 8. What Kierkegaardian Faith Adds to Alterity Ethics: How Levinas and Derrida Miss the Eschatological Dimension / John J. Davenport Part 4. Ethico-Political Possibilities 9. The Challenge of Justice: The Ethics of "Upbuilding" / Edith Wyschogrod 10. Levinas and Kierkegaard: Ethics and Politics / Zeynep Direk 11. Works of Justice, Works of Love: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and an Ethics Beyond Difference / Stephen Minister 12. "More Than All the Others": Meditation on Responsibility / Martin Beck Matu tik List of Contributors Index