COLIN DAVIS is Reader in French Literature at Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in French at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He has published books on Michel Tournier, Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas, and articles on modern French fiction and thought.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Ethical Criticism Otherness, Altercide Hermeneutic and Ethical Encounters: Gadamar and Levinas Ethics, Fiction, and the Death of the Other: Sartre and Kant Camus, Encounters, Reading Didacticism and the Ethics of Failure: Beauvoir Humanism and its Others: Sartre, Heidegger, Yourcenar Ethical Indifference: Duras Readers, Others: Genet Conclusions: Tarrying with the Negative Bibliography Index

COLIN DAVIS is Reader in French Literature at Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in French at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He has published books on Michel Tournier, Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas, and articles on modern French fiction and thought.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Ethical Criticism Otherness, Altercide Hermeneutic and Ethical Encounters: Gadamar and Levinas Ethics, Fiction, and the Death of the Other: Sartre and Kant Camus, Encounters, Reading Didacticism and the Ethics of Failure: Beauvoir Humanism and its Others: Sartre, Heidegger, Yourcenar Ethical Indifference: Duras Readers, Others: Genet Conclusions: Tarrying with the Negative Bibliography Index

COLIN DAVIS is Reader in French Literature at Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in French at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He has published books on Michel Tournier, Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas, and articles on modern French fiction and thought.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Ethical Criticism Otherness, Altercide Hermeneutic and Ethical Encounters: Gadamar and Levinas Ethics, Fiction, and the Death of the Other: Sartre and Kant Camus, Encounters, Reading Didacticism and the Ethics of Failure: Beauvoir Humanism and its Others: Sartre, Heidegger, Yourcenar Ethical Indifference: Duras Readers, Others: Genet Conclusions: Tarrying with the Negative Bibliography Index