David Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. François Raffoul is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. Together, they have translated many books, including The Creation of the World or Globalization by Jean-Luc Nancy and The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan by Juan-David Nasio, both also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: David Pettigrew and François Raffoul1. Toward the End of the "French Exception"?Dominique Janicaud2. Levinas’s Heideggerian FantasmReginald Lilly3. The Thoughtful Dialogue Between Martin Heidegger and Jean Beaufret: A New Way of Doing Philosophy Pierre Jacerme4. Postscripts to the "Letter on ‘Humanism’": Heidegger, Sartre, and Being-HumanDennis Skocz5. Merleau-Ponty’s 1959 Heidegger Lectures: The Task of Thinking and the Possibility of Philosophy TodayWayne Froman6. Self-Fashioning as a Response to the Crisis of "Ethics": A Foucault/Heidegger AuseinandersetzungAlan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg7. Contamination, Essence, and Decomposition: Heidegger and DerridaAndrew Mitchell8. Between Deleuze and Heidegger There Never Is Any DifferenceJonathan Dronsfield9. On a Divine WinkJean-Luc Nancy10. Sticking Heidegger with a Stela: Lacoue-Labarthe, Art and PoliticsGregory Schufreider11. Dwelling with Language: Irigaray RespondsHelen A. Fielding12. Forgiving "La Dette Impensée": Being Jewish and Reading Heidegger Allen Scult13. The Poverty of Heidegger’s "Last God"Jean Greisch14. The Reception and Nonreception of Heidegger in FranceFrançoise DasturList of Contributors Index

"…the editors of this book have made a commendable effort in compiling thought-provoking essays on the responses to Heidegger's ideas of some of the most important figures in late-modern French thought." — Symposium"An indispensable resource for anyone wanting a serious engagement not only with contemporary French philosophy but also with the thought of Heidegger. The studies in this collection are not merely retrospective reflections; they are themselves original contributions to the ongoing French reception of Heidegger's thought." — David Michael Kleinberg-Levin, author of Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics