Death and Responsibility

Dennis King Keenan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Infinite and the Evil Genius: Reading Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy2. Skepticism and the Blinking Light of Revelation3. The Body and the (Non)Sense in Sensibility4. On the Genealogy of Death5. Responsibility: Rereading "On the Genealogy of Death"NotesSelect BibliographyIndex

"Dennis King Keenan is an extremely perceptive reader of texts. His method, comparison and juxtaposition to create a kind of textual layering, elicits original insights into Levinas, Heidegger, Blanchot, and Derrida. The approach to Levinas by way of Blanchot's 'step/not beyond' and the concept of the double origin render a significant contribution to Levinas studies and to analyzing the relation of Levinas to Heidegger, Derrida, and Blanchot." — Edith Wyschogrod, coeditor of Lacan and Theological Discourse"This book is a sophisticated, nuanced deconstructive reading of Levinas. I heartily agree with its main thesis; until now this connection has not been adequately dealt with in any other book-length discussion of Levinas's work." — Simon Critchley, coeditor of Deconstructive Subjectivities