Silvia Benso is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Siena College. She is the author of Pensare dopo Auschwitz. Etica filosofica e teodicea ebraica.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Preface Part I. Levinas: Love without Things 1. Out of Love: The Break with Parmenides 2. In Love: Ethics as the Meeting Place 3. My Love, Who Are You? The Face of the Beloved Other 4. Without Love: The Disappearance of Things Part II. Heidegger: Things without Love 5. The Question of Things 6. Phenomenologically, Things 7. Instrumental Modes of Disclosure 8. Artistic Modes of Disclosure 9. Ethical Disclosure? The Faciality of Things Part III. The Ethics of Things: Tender Love, Festive Things 10. Prelude: Toward an Ethics of Things 11. Things' Obsessive Appeal 12. Touch, Attention, Tenderness 13. Saddened Tenderness: Violence and Resistance 14. Festive Celebrations Notes Bibliography Index

"Benso's elegant study takes its starting point in Heidegger and Levinas and shows a good understanding of their thought, but her goal is to develop what she calls 'an ethics of things.' She employs Levinasian resources to develop an ethics of things and to use Levinas against Levinas in a way that is novel and provocative." — Robert Bernasconi, author of Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing"This book is perfectly situated to deal with questions raised by environmental concerns as well as ethical, social, and political questions about human relationships and community. It is a wonderful contribution to on-going debates about an ethics and theory of subjectivity and of the other which is adequate to the times we live in and which can address contemporary problems of social violence, alienation, and environmental devastation." — Tamsin E. Lorraine, author of Irigaray & Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy

Silvia Benso is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Siena College. She is the author of Pensare dopo Auschwitz. Etica filosofica e teodicea ebraica.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Preface Part I. Levinas: Love without Things 1. Out of Love: The Break with Parmenides 2. In Love: Ethics as the Meeting Place 3. My Love, Who Are You? The Face of the Beloved Other 4. Without Love: The Disappearance of Things Part II. Heidegger: Things without Love 5. The Question of Things 6. Phenomenologically, Things 7. Instrumental Modes of Disclosure 8. Artistic Modes of Disclosure 9. Ethical Disclosure? The Faciality of Things Part III. The Ethics of Things: Tender Love, Festive Things 10. Prelude: Toward an Ethics of Things 11. Things' Obsessive Appeal 12. Touch, Attention, Tenderness 13. Saddened Tenderness: Violence and Resistance 14. Festive Celebrations Notes Bibliography Index

"Benso's elegant study takes its starting point in Heidegger and Levinas and shows a good understanding of their thought, but her goal is to develop what she calls 'an ethics of things.' She employs Levinasian resources to develop an ethics of things and to use Levinas against Levinas in a way that is novel and provocative." — Robert Bernasconi, author of Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing"This book is perfectly situated to deal with questions raised by environmental concerns as well as ethical, social, and political questions about human relationships and community. It is a wonderful contribution to on-going debates about an ethics and theory of subjectivity and of the other which is adequate to the times we live in and which can address contemporary problems of social violence, alienation, and environmental devastation." — Tamsin E. Lorraine, author of Irigaray & Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy

Silvia Benso is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Siena College. She is the author of Pensare dopo Auschwitz. Etica filosofica e teodicea ebraica.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Preface Part I. Levinas: Love without Things 1. Out of Love: The Break with Parmenides 2. In Love: Ethics as the Meeting Place 3. My Love, Who Are You? The Face of the Beloved Other 4. Without Love: The Disappearance of Things Part II. Heidegger: Things without Love 5. The Question of Things 6. Phenomenologically, Things 7. Instrumental Modes of Disclosure 8. Artistic Modes of Disclosure 9. Ethical Disclosure? The Faciality of Things Part III. The Ethics of Things: Tender Love, Festive Things 10. Prelude: Toward an Ethics of Things 11. Things' Obsessive Appeal 12. Touch, Attention, Tenderness 13. Saddened Tenderness: Violence and Resistance 14. Festive Celebrations Notes Bibliography Index

"Benso's elegant study takes its starting point in Heidegger and Levinas and shows a good understanding of their thought, but her goal is to develop what she calls 'an ethics of things.' She employs Levinasian resources to develop an ethics of things and to use Levinas against Levinas in a way that is novel and provocative." — Robert Bernasconi, author of Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing"This book is perfectly situated to deal with questions raised by environmental concerns as well as ethical, social, and political questions about human relationships and community. It is a wonderful contribution to on-going debates about an ethics and theory of subjectivity and of the other which is adequate to the times we live in and which can address contemporary problems of social violence, alienation, and environmental devastation." — Tamsin E. Lorraine, author of Irigaray & Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy