Nietzsche and Levinas: "After the Death of a Certain God"

Edited by Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo

Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14405-6
$27.50 / £19.00

January, 2009
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14404-9
$79.50 / £55.00

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations of Texts by Nietzsche and Levinas

Introduction Bettina Bergo and Jill Stauffer

Part I. Revaluing Ethics: Time, Teaching, and the Ambiguity of Forces

1. The Malice in Good Deeds, by Alphonso Lingis

2. The Imperfect: Levinas, Nietzsche, and the Autonomous Subjec, by Jill Stauffer

3. Nietzsche and Levinas: The Impossible Relation , by John-Michel Longneaux

4. Ethical Ambivalence, by Judith Butler

5. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Thus Listened the Rabbis: Philosophy, Education, and the Cycle of Enlightenment, by Claire Elise Katz

Part II. The Subject: Sensing, Suffering, and Responding

6. The Flesh Made Word; Or The Two Origins, by Bettina Bergo

7. Nietzsche, Levinas, and the Meaning of Responsibility, by Rosalyn Diprose

8. Beginning’s Abyss: On Solitude in Nietzsche and Levinas, by John Drabinski

9. Beyond Suffering I Have No Alibi, by David Boothroyd

10. Levinas, Spinozism, Nietzsche, and the Body, by Richard A. Cohen

Part III. Heteronomy and Ubiquity: God in Philosophy

11. Suffering Redeemable and Irredeemable, by John Llewelyn

12. Levinas’s Gaia Scienza, by Aïcha Liviana Messina

13. Levinas: Another Ascetic Priest?, by Silvia Benso

14. Apocalypse, Eschatology, and the Death of God, by Brian Schroeder

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Philosophy of Religion

Series

• Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

About the Author

Jill Stauffer is an assistant professor of philosophy at John Jay College, City University of New York.

Bettina Bergo is associate professor of philosophy at the Université de Montréal. The author of Levinas Between Ethics and Politics, she has translated Levinas's Of God Who Comes to Mind and other works by the philosopher, and coedited Jean-Luc Nancy's Dis-enclosure: Deconstruction of Christianity. She is the coeditor of Trauma: Reflection on Experience and Its Other.

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