Table of Contents

Introduction: But Is It Ethics? I I Alterity: The Problem of Transcendence 17 2 Singularity: The Unrepresentable Face 50o 3 Responsibility: The Infinity of the Demand 78 4 Ethics: Normativity and Norms 124 5 Scarce Resources? Levinas, Animals, and the Environment 150 6 Failures of Recognition and the Recognition of Failure: Levinas and Identity Politics 177

About the Author

Diane Perpich is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University.

Reviews

"Well-written, urbane, conversant with the relevant secondary literature, even more conversant with Levinas's thought, Perpich's book treats the central topics and issues raised by Levinas's ethics with grace, intelligence, balance, penetration, and argumentative skill and is ever aware of his ethics' originality and importance." - Richard A. Cohen, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte