Levinas and the Postcolonial

John E. Drabinski is Professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of At the Margins of Nihilism (Fordham University Press, 2025, forthcoming), Baldwin and the Black Atlantic (Northwestern University Press, 2025), Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other (EUP, 2012), Godard Between Identity and Difference (Continuum, 2008) and Sensibility and Singularity: The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas (SUNY, 2001).

• Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Decolonizing Levinasian Ethics; 1. Incarnate Historiography and the Problem of Method; 2. Epistemological Fracture; 3. The Ontology of Fracture; 4. Ethics of Entanglement; 5. Decolonizing Levinasian Politics; Concluding Remarks; Index.

Drabinski resolutely places himself in the unacknowledged double bind between the ethical and the political in Levinas's work and, with an impressive and erudite humility, attempts to rethink Levinas for 'those of us with a materialist sensibility'.