Introduction a) The Central Question b) Plato's Phaedrus c) Levinas's Two Main Works d) Levinas on Plato e) Methodological Remarks f) Before Culture Part I: The Self Chapter 1: Preliminary Reflections on the Self a) Interiority and the Myth of Gyges b) Otherness in the Same Chapter 2: Dimensions of Corporeality a) Levinas and the Body as Vulnerability b) The Body in Plato's Phaedrus Chapter 3: Enjoyment or Suffering? Modes of Sensibility a) The permanent truth of hedonist moralities b) Pleasure, Pain, and Vulnerability Part II: The Other Chapter 4: Origins of Speech a) Speech as Apology b) Socratic and Levinasian Teaching Chapter 5: The Ambiguity of Eros a) Levinas about Eros between Being and Non-Being b) Plato on Beauty and Wings c) The Place of Eros Chapter 6: The Ethical Relationship a) The Paradox of Ethical Resistance b) An Infinite Responsibility c) Getting under the Skin Part III: The Others Chapter 7: The Universality of the Good a) Levinas and Universal Humanism b) Plato and the Good beyond Being Chapter 8: Communities, Politics, Laws a) Plato on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Law b) Levinas and the Political Calculus Part IV: Historical-Cultural Worlds Chapter 9: The Critique of Writing a) Writing Versus Speech b) The Saying and the Said Chapter 10: The Ambiguity of the Aesthetic a) Images and Shadows b) The Irresponsibility of Art c) The Work and Tyranny Chapter 11: History and Culture a) Between Past and Future b) Levinas and the Stranger c) Philosophers and Strangers in Plato Chapter 12: Concluding Remarks on Ethics and Ambiguity a) Univocal Ethics? b) Ambiguity in de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas c) Attempting a Genealogy of Ambiguity d) Plato's Contribution