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).

"Presents a variety of perspectives on the relation of Levinas and Kierkegaard and represents a debate on how to read these two together and against each other."—Merold Westphal, Fordham University"A book of this nature is long overdue."—Martin Beck Matustik, Purdue University

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Good Fences May Not Make Good Neighbors After All / J. Aaron Simmons and David WoodPart 1. Levinas on Kierkegaard1. The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard / Merold Westphal2. Existential Appropriations: The Influence of Jean Wahl on Levinas's Reading of Kierkegaard / J. Aaron SimmonsPart 2. On Love and Transcendence3. Who or What or Whot? / John Llewelyn4. Kierkegaard and Levinas on Four Elements of the Biblical Love Commandment / M. Jamie Ferreira5. The Greatest Commandment? Religion and/or Ethics in Kierkegaard and Levinas / Jeffrey DudiakPart 3. Time, Alterity, and Eschatology6. Hearing, Patiently: Time and Salvation in Kierkegaard and Levinas / David Kangas and Martin Kavka7. Kierkegaard, Levinas, and "Absolute Alterity" / Michael Weston8. What Kierkegaardian Faith Adds to Alterity Ethics: How Levinas and Derrida Miss the Eschatological Dimension / John J. DavenportPart 4. Ethico-Political Possibilities9. The Challenge of Justice: The Ethics of "Upbuilding" / Edith Wyschogrod10. Levinas and Kierkegaard: Ethics and Politics / Zeynep Direk11. Works of Justice, Works of Love: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and an Ethics Beyond Difference / Stephen Minister12. "More Than All the Others": Meditation on Responsibility / Martin Beck MatuštíkList of ContributorsIndex

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).

"Presents a variety of perspectives on the relation of Levinas and Kierkegaard and represents a debate on how to read these two together and against each other."—Merold Westphal, Fordham University"A book of this nature is long overdue."—Martin Beck Matustik, Purdue University

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Good Fences May Not Make Good Neighbors After All / J. Aaron Simmons and David WoodPart 1. Levinas on Kierkegaard1. The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard / Merold Westphal2. Existential Appropriations: The Influence of Jean Wahl on Levinas's Reading of Kierkegaard / J. Aaron SimmonsPart 2. On Love and Transcendence3. Who or What or Whot? / John Llewelyn4. Kierkegaard and Levinas on Four Elements of the Biblical Love Commandment / M. Jamie Ferreira5. The Greatest Commandment? Religion and/or Ethics in Kierkegaard and Levinas / Jeffrey DudiakPart 3. Time, Alterity, and Eschatology6. Hearing, Patiently: Time and Salvation in Kierkegaard and Levinas / David Kangas and Martin Kavka7. Kierkegaard, Levinas, and "Absolute Alterity" / Michael Weston8. What Kierkegaardian Faith Adds to Alterity Ethics: How Levinas and Derrida Miss the Eschatological Dimension / John J. DavenportPart 4. Ethico-Political Possibilities9. The Challenge of Justice: The Ethics of "Upbuilding" / Edith Wyschogrod10. Levinas and Kierkegaard: Ethics and Politics / Zeynep Direk11. Works of Justice, Works of Love: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and an Ethics Beyond Difference / Stephen Minister12. "More Than All the Others": Meditation on Responsibility / Martin Beck MatuštíkList of ContributorsIndex

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).

"Presents a variety of perspectives on the relation of Levinas and Kierkegaard and represents a debate on how to read these two together and against each other."—Merold Westphal, Fordham University"A book of this nature is long overdue."—Martin Beck Matustik, Purdue University

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Good Fences May Not Make Good Neighbors After All / J. Aaron Simmons and David WoodPart 1. Levinas on Kierkegaard1. The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard / Merold Westphal2. Existential Appropriations: The Influence of Jean Wahl on Levinas's Reading of Kierkegaard / J. Aaron SimmonsPart 2. On Love and Transcendence3. Who or What or Whot? / John Llewelyn4. Kierkegaard and Levinas on Four Elements of the Biblical Love Commandment / M. Jamie Ferreira5. The Greatest Commandment? Religion and/or Ethics in Kierkegaard and Levinas / Jeffrey DudiakPart 3. Time, Alterity, and Eschatology6. Hearing, Patiently: Time and Salvation in Kierkegaard and Levinas / David Kangas and Martin Kavka7. Kierkegaard, Levinas, and "Absolute Alterity" / Michael Weston8. What Kierkegaardian Faith Adds to Alterity Ethics: How Levinas and Derrida Miss the Eschatological Dimension / John J. DavenportPart 4. Ethico-Political Possibilities9. The Challenge of Justice: The Ethics of "Upbuilding" / Edith Wyschogrod10. Levinas and Kierkegaard: Ethics and Politics / Zeynep Direk11. Works of Justice, Works of Love: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and an Ethics Beyond Difference / Stephen Minister12. "More Than All the Others": Meditation on Responsibility / Martin Beck MatuštíkList of ContributorsIndex