Event of the Good

Christopher Buckman is Lecturer in Philosophy at Indiana University Kokomo. Melissa Bradley teaches history at the secondary school level in Charlotte, North Carolina. Jack Marsh teaches Bible Studies at the Inter-American School, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. James McLachlan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at Western Carolina University.

• Introduction. The Event of the GoodJames M. McLachlanPath I. Reading Levinas1. Reading Levinas in a Levinasian WayJean-Michel Salanskis2. Levinas in North America Today: Richard A. Cohen's ContributionsJack Marsh and Christopher L. Southland3. Book Review: Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation after LevinasRobert Gibbs4. Cohenfest: Did Rich Cohen Eat Al Lingis's Octopus?Don Ihde5. Cohen as PhilosopherMarie-Anne Lescourret6. Book Review: ElevationsEdith WyschogrodPath II. Ethical Exegesis7. Post-Levinasian Sketch of Ambivalent Relations: Between Art, Criticism, and EthicsRossitsa Varadinova Borkowski8. Rhythm and Sense in the Philosophy of LevinasMasato Goda9. After the End of Philosophy: Ethical Exegesis and Ethical BodyIrina Poleshchuk10. Senseless Kindness, the Church, and the Betrayal of Mercy in Don QuixoteSteven Shankman11. Art of the Uncanny: Seeing with Cohen and LevinasJolanta SaldukaitytėPath III. Ontological Contests12. Review: Levinas's Reading of SpinozaJacques J. Rozenberg13. Imagine FreedomBrunella Antomarini14. Sovereignty in Levinas and HobbesChristopher Buckman15. On Ethics: Levinas and Badiou in the Post-Postmodern ConditionChung-Hsiung Lai16. On the Importance of Importance: Emmanuel Levinas on the First Challenge to Jewish Thought TodayRichard Sugarman17. Levinas and the Ethics of Sacrifice: Reading "Dying For..." AdverbiallySandor GoodhartPath IV. Ethical Religion18. The Small Goodness Never Wins, But Is Never Defeated: On How Emmanuel Levinas Finds Inspirtation in Vasily Grossman for His Vision of a Humane SocietyRoger Burggraeve19. Sympathy for the Devil: On Richard Cohen's Levinasian Medications on Sartre and TheologyJames M. McLachlan20. Incarnate ReligionMark K. Spencer21. The Ethical Event: A Phenomenology of Chesed for Asylum-seeking RefugeesDevorah WainerConclusion: Cohen Responds Response to ContributorsRichard A. CohenList of ContributorsIndex

"The essays in this volume offer ways of reading Levinas's philosophical corpus that are more in tune with how Levinas himself invites approaches consistent with his own formulations of his project. This is indeed a welcome development." — James D. Hatley, Salisbury University"This book is unique in the way it foregrounds attempts to read Levinas through his own lens and methods. The essays collected here emphasize a faithfulness to Levinas's work throughout, and, through many different angles and approaches, they exhibit what happens when his words and work are generally trusted and relied upon to shape interpretation." — Eric R. Severson, Seattle University