Encountering the Other

Two of the most creative and compelling thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas first encountered each other in the 1920s and began a friendship that was to span over seven decades. Their subsequent exchanges of ideas and shared concerns, as well as their significant differences and influence on one another, have profound implications for the work of each. Encountering the Other represents the most sustained analysis to date of the intersections of structure and content in Blanchot and Levinas's most representative and complex works.

Alain P. Toumayan is director of the Program in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Notre Dame.

List of Abbreviations	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Identity and Difference	p. 8
"La Differance"	p. 9
The Principle and Leap of Identity in Heidegger	p. 13
Entering the Element: Blanchot's Thomas the Obscure	p. 19
Levinas: Difference and the Ethical Relation	p. 29
The Problem of Death	p. 44
Levinas and the Otherness of Death	p. 45
Difference, Dialectic, and Death: "Literature and The Right to Death"	p. 50
Encountering Death: Thomas the Obscure and Death Sentence	p. 65
Two Stories of the Encounter: Orpheus and Ulysses	p. 85
Orpheus and Inspiration	p. 86
Inspiration and the Trace	p. 93
Blanchot's Conclusion	p. 97
Ulysses and the Sirens	p. 100
Novel and Tale	p. 105
The Ambiguity of the Present	p. 109
Encountering the Image	p. 114
The Image	p. 115
Time and the Work of Art	p. 120
Blanchot and the Image	p. 124
The Versions of the Image	p. 127
Image and Cadaver	p. 132
The Image and the Artwork	p. 136
Duplicity and Ambiguity	p. 139
Encountering the Image	p. 142
Encountering the Other Night	p. 144
Exoticism and the Il y a	p. 146
Il y a	p. 147
Encountering the Il y a	p. 148
Writing and Solitude in Blanchot	p. 155
The Other Night	p. 158
Two Stories of the Other Night	p. 162
Difference and the Other Night	p. 166
Conclusion	p. 169
Difference and Interpretation	p. 169
From Art to the Ethical Subject	p. 173
Notes	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 225
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