David M. Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University, USA.His books include: The Body’s Recollection of Being (1985), The Opening of Vision (1988), The Listening Self (1989), The Philosopher’s Gaze (1999), Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hölderlin’s Question of Measure After Heidegger (2005), Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty’s Ecology and Levinas’s Ethics (2008), Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov (2012), Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald (2013), Beckett’s Words: The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning (2015). Forthcoming: Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Perception, in 2 volumes.

• Opening Conversation. Introduction: The Gift and the Art 1. The Historical Call to Our Hearing 2. Zugehörigkeit: Our Primordial Attunement 3. Everydayness: The Ego's World 4. Skilful Listening 5. Communicative Praxis 6. Hearkening: Hearing Moved by Ontological Understanding