Part 1 Characterizations; Chapter 1 The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and the Hebraic Tradition, Catherine Chalier; Chapter 2 Height and Nearness, Robert Gibbs; Chapter 3 A People's Witness beyond Politics, Charles E. Scott; Part 2 Ethics as First Philosophy; Chapter 4 Response and Responsibility in Levinas, Bernhard Waldenfels; Chapter 5 Reply to Bernhard Waldenfels, Response and Responsibility in Levinas, Hugh Miller; Chapter 6 Levinas's Ethics, Patricia H. Werhane; Chapter 7 The Notion of Persecution in Levinas's Otherwise Than Being or Beyond Essence, Elisabeth Weber, Mark Saatjian; Chapter 8 Only the Persecuted..., Robert Bernasconi; Chapter 9 The Riddle of the Pre-original, Fabio Ciaramelli; Chapter 10 On Resorting to an Ethical Language, Paul Davies; Part 3 Psychism; Chapter 11 Nonintentional Affectivity, Affective Intentionality, and the Ethical in Levinas's Philosophy, Andrew Tallon; Chapter 12 The Irresponsible Subject, William J. Richardson; Part 4 Art; Chapter 13 The Art in Ethics, Edith Wyschogrod; Part 5 Religion; Chapter 14 Levinas's Teleological Suspension of the Religious, Merold Westphal; Chapter 15 Theology and the Philosophy of Religion according to Levinas, Theo de Boer; Chapter 16 Tracing Responsibility in Levinas's Ethical Thought, Jill Robbins; Chapter 17 Transcendence, Adriaan T. Peperzak; Chapter 18 Response to Adriaan Peperzak on Transcendence, David Tracy; Chapter 19 Amen, John Llewelyn; Chapter 20 Adieu, a dieu, a-Dieu, Hent de Vries; Part 6 Levinas and Benjamin; Chapter 21 Fades Hippocratica, Rebecca Comay;