ABSTRACT
The volume contains nine essays on Levinas which, although reflecting a variety of positions, are united by the theme of rethinking the Other that is at the centre of Levinas’s work. Many of the essays are comparative, offering a series of dialogues between Levinas and thinkers as diverse as Heidegger (Boothroyd, Llewelyn), Foucault (O’Connor), Kristeva (Ainley), Pontalis (Gans), Sartre (Howells), Buber (Bernasconi) and Derrida (Llewelyn). Such comparative essays might hopefully serve as points of access to Levinas for readers familiar with one of the above authors but unfamiliar with Levinas’s work. The volume is also significant for its discussion of the crucial relation of feminism to Levinas’s work, in the essays of Chanter, O’Connor and Ainley, and its exploration of the links between Levinasian ethics and psychoanalysis, in the essays of Heaton and Gans. To be judgemental, and from the point of view of Levinasian research and scholarship, I would particularly recommend the essays of Boothroyd, Chanter, Bernasconi and Llewelyn.
