ABSTRACT
GOD IS DEAD At the beginning of the first chapter of Otherwise than Being Levinas refers to ‘strange rumours about the death of God or the emptiness of the heavens’ (AE 5, OB 5). That his book purports to say ‘Amen’ to that rumour is evident from his making precise in the very next paragraph and in the very last paragraph of the book that the death here rumoured, the death rumoured by Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, is the death of a certain God inhabiting a world behind the scenes. But what is it to say ‘Amen’?
