J. Aaron Simmons is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hendrix College.

David Wood is Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is author of many books, including Time After Time (IUP, 2007).

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Good Fences May Not Make Good Neighbors After All / J. Aaron Simmons and David Wood

Part 1. Levinas on Kierkegaard

1. The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard / Merold Westphal

2. Existential Appropriations: The Influence of Jean Wahl on Levinas's Reading of Kierkegaard / J. Aaron Simmons

Part 2. On Love and Transcendence

3. Who or What or Whot? / John Llewelyn

4. Kierkegaard and Levinas on Four Elements of the Biblical Love Commandment / M. Jamie Ferreira

5. The Greatest Commandment? Religion and/or Ethics in Kierkegaard and Levinas / Jeffrey Dudiak

Part 3. Time, Alterity, and Eschatology

6. Hearing, Patiently: Time and Salvation in Kierkegaard and Levinas / David Kangas and Martin Kavka

7. Kierkegaard, Levinas, and "Absolute Alterity" / Michael Weston

8. What Kierkegaardian Faith Adds to Alterity Ethics: How Levinas and Derrida Miss the Eschatological Dimension / John J. Davenport

Part 4. Ethico-Political Possibilities

9. The Challenge of Justice: The Ethics of "Upbuilding" / Edith Wyschogrod

10. Levinas and Kierkegaard: Ethics and Politics / Zeynep Direk

11. Works of Justice, Works of Love: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and an Ethics Beyond Difference / Stephen Minister

12. "More Than All the Others": Meditation on Responsibility / Martin Beck Matuštík

List of Contributors

Index