| Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations and Citations | |
| Introduction: Philosophy and Its Others | 3 |
| Two Lives | 5 |
| The Task | 10 |
| Ch. 1 | Correlations, Adaptation | 17 |
| A Family Portrait | 17 |
| The Basic Influences | 23 |
| Adaptation | 31 |
| Ch. 2 | The Logic of Limitation | 34 |
| Death and Philosophy | 36 |
| The Star Inside Out | 40 |
| Getting Something from Nothing | 46 |
| Conclusion: Reason and Discontinuity | 54 |
| Ch. 3 | Speech as Performance (I): The Grammar of Revelation | 57 |
| Performing and Grammar | 59 |
| The Moods of Theology | 67 |
| Ch. 4 | Speech as Performance (II): Logic, Reading, Questions | 80 |
| Prophetic Thinking, Fulfilling Speech | 81 |
| God Speaks with Human Language | 92 |
| The Question of Theology | 100 |
| Ch. 5 | Eternity and Society (I): Sociology and History | 105 |
| Social Time | 107 |
| Place-Holders and Historical Claims | 113 |
| Ch. 6 | Eternity and Society (II): Politics vs. Aesthetics | 129 |
| Form and Force (Gestalt and Gewalt) | 129 |
| Gestures of Eternity | 136 |
| Eternal Enmity | 151 |
| Ch. 7 | Correlations, Translation | 155 |
| From Politics to Rhetoric | 158 |
| Translation into 'Greek' | 164 |
| Philosophical Hermeneutics | 167 |
| 'Hebrew's' Demand for 'Greek' | 171 |
| Appendix: Levinas' Texts for the Colloquiums | 175 |
| Ch. 8 | The Unique Other: Hermann Cohen and Emmanuel Levinas | 176 |
| Cohen's Double Discovery of the 'You' | 178 |
| Levinas' Account of the Other | 181 |
| The Other's Freedom / My Re-sponsibility | 184 |
| Companion or Stranger? | 188 |
| Ch. 9 | Substitution: Marcel and Levinas | 192 |
| Performing De-centering | 194 |
| Levinas' Subtitution | 204 |
| Into My Own Voice | 222 |
| Appendix: Pre-Texts | 226 |
| Ch. 10 | Marx and Levinas: Liberation in Society | 229 |
| In the Face of the Other: Levinas' Economics | 230 |
| Marx's Social Ethics | 243 |
| Revolution and the Face | 250 |
| Appendix: Levinas on Marx | 252 |
| Epilogue: Seven Rubrics for Jewish Philosophy | 255 |
| Notes | 261 |
| Select Bibliography | 271 |
| Name Index | 275 |
| Subject Index | 277 |