The Inhuman Condition: Looking for Difference after Levinas and Heidegger

Abbreviations. Introduction - Talking 'bout My Generation. I: LOOKING FOR DIFFERENCE. 1: Levinas, Multiculturalism and Us. 1. The Political Approach and Its Implicit Metaphysics. 2. The Ethical Approach and Its Explicit Metaphysics. 3. A Question of Attachments. 2: In Respectful Contempt. Heidegger, Appropriation, Facticity. 1. In the Margins of Thought. 2. Relativism, Scepticism, Historicism. 3. Appropriating Heidegger After Foucault. 4. Being Held (Up). 5. Just How Naked Is Dasein's 'That'? 3: Whistling in the Dark. Two Approaches to Anxiety. 1. Anxiety and Fear. 2. Heidegger's Approach to Anxiety. 3. The 'Security Paradox'. 4. Anxiety in a Pluralistic Society. II: AFTER LEVINAS. 4: The Price of Being Dispossessed. Levinas' God and Freud's Trauma. 1. A Discomfort That Liberates? 2. The Proximity of the Other. 3. Responsibility Is Misplaced. 4. Affects Without Context. 5. A Shock Without Affect. 6. Ex Nihilo, an Other Scene. 5: The Mortality of the Transcendent. Levinas and Evil. 1. Transcendence and Exteriority. 2. Two Paths in Metaphysics: From God to the Face and From the Face to God. 3. An Invitation or a Command? 4. A Passio in Distans. 6: Is Ethics Fundamental? Questioning Levinas on Irresponsibility. 1. Some Technicalities: The Privative Negation. 2. Levinas' Ambivalence Toward Privation. 3. Responsibility, in a Very Small Nutshell. 4. The Face - Not an Obstacle, but the Secret Aimof My Desire. 5. A Naturalization of the Other? 6. A Confusion ofTongues? 7. Not Leaving Oneself. 8. Beyond 'Help' - The Logic of Appreciation. 9. 'Not Without' Qualities - Racism Reconsidered. III: AFTER HEIDEGGER. 7. Intransitive facticity? A Question to Heidegger. 1. Untranslatably My Own. 2. Undoing Dasein's Self-Defence. 3. Talking Oneself Out of 'It'. 4. The World - A First Liberation. 5. The Message of Boredom. 6. Does Boredom Truly Have a Message? 7. Between the Tines of a Fork. 8. Intransitive Facticity, the Pre-History of 'The Primacy of Ethics'. 8: Demons and the Demonic. Kierkegaard and Heidegger on Anxiety and Sexual Difference. 1. Being Unable to Die. 2. Silence, Fear and Trembling. 3. Not Nothing - Anxiety and Pudency. 4. Adam's 'Passing Into the Act'. 5. A Mute Transcendence. 9: Dissensus Communis. How to Keep Silent 'After' Lyotard. 1. The Fissure. 2. A Conceptual Shift. 3. Sorrow or Care - 'After' the 'Death' of 'God'. Conclusion - In Search of Visibility. Acknowledgements.