"Readers will find Jeffrey Kosky's book a helpful addition to the secondary material on Levinas. Attention to Levinas continues to increase as do the quality and number of secondary pieces interpreting his work. In keeping with the writings of John Caputo and Dennis Keenan, Kosky (independent scholar) presents Levinas as a phenomenologist who engages religious subjects without denying the important shift beyond ontotheology made by Nietzsche and Heidegger. Kosky focuses on responsibility as the key to unlocking the religious possibilities within Levinas. This insight is not new, but it bears repeating. Kosky concludes his text by showing that Levinas's religion is rooted in undecidability. One knows not of what one speaks, when one speaks of God. This insight is as refreshing now as it was when Augustine stated it in the first book of the Confessions. Kosky does an excellent job of drawing our attention to Levinas as one of the great 20th-century thinkers who refuses to deny God while simultaneously refusing to claim to know anything about God. Graduate students and scholars of Levinas, as well as those in the area of the philosophy of religion, should read this text.September 2002"—D. J. Livingston, Mercyhurst College
