The Pre-Text of Ethics: On Derrida and Levinas

by Duncan, Diane Moira

• ISBN13: 9780820451237
• ISBN10: 0820451231
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Author Biography

Diane Moira Duncan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Edward A. Beach
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction: ``Before the Law''	1	(1)
For and Against Deconstruction	1	(9)
Ethics as Interruption	10	(21)
The First Person	31	(44)
Beginnings	31	(14)
The Jewish Ground	31	(5)
Beyond Phenomenology	36	(1)
Husserl and Intentionality	36	(6)
``There Is''	42	(3)
Synonyms of Power	45	(30)
Nourishment and Possession	45	(2)
Knowledge	47	(3)
Murder and Hatred	50	(1)
``The Devil's Part''	50	(10)
Are We Duped?: Keeping Armies	60	(3)
The ``As If'' of Suffering	63	(12)
The Second Person	75	(44)
Time and Mystery	75	(17)
The Sleep of Death	75	(3)
Femininity	78	(1)
The ``Phenomenology of Eros''	78	(4)
The ``Fecundity of the Caress''	82	(7)
The Fragility of Love	89	(3)
The Sanctity of Secrecy	92	(27)
The Epiphany of the Unpresentable	92	(1)
The Idea of Infinity	92	(4)
A Postmodern Ethics	96	(3)
A Discourse with God(s)	99	(1)
Overcoming Rhetoric: Secrecy and the ``Saying''	99	(9)
Giving Testimony	108	(11)
The Third Person	119	(54)
The Aesthetics of Justice	119	(18)
``The Ego and the Totality''	119	(1)
The Third Eye	119	(4)
Face Value	123	(2)
Social Machinery	125	(1)
The Trial	125	(6)
``In the Penal Colony''	131	(6)
Deconstruction and the Gift	137	(36)
Presence and Presents	137	(1)
``Just'' Acting	137	(4)
In Hot Pursuit: ``Before the Law'' and After Justice	141	(2)
Inhuman Sacrifices	143	(1)
Given Death: Silence	143	(9)
The Voice of Passion	152	(4)
A-Dieu	156	(17)
Appendix	173	(8)
Bibliography	181	(6)
Index	187