Contents -- Introduction -- Revisiting the Question of levinas and Heidegger -- Epigraph -- Notes -- Part I: Immanence and Transcendence -- Chapter One: Critique, Power, and Ontological Violence: The Problem of "First" Philosophy -- Ontological Imperialism -- Ethics as Critique -- "As Close as Possible to Nonviolence" -- Sources Cited -- Chapter Two: Dreaming Otherwise than Icarus: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Secularization of Transcendence -- I -- II -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter Three: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Other of History -- Introduction -- Reposing the Question of History -- Another History -- History as Decision and Event -- Historie and Geschichte -- Understanding and Interpretation -- Historically Mindful Reflection -- Endings and Beginnings -- Notes -- Part II: Temporalities -- Chapter Four: The Sincerity of the Saying -- System and Subject -- "Here I Am" -- Testimony -- Notes -- Chapter Five: Time's Disquiet and Unrest: The Affinity between Heidegger and Levinas -- Levinas, or Against Death as Basis:The Absolute Absence of The Other Breaks Off -- Heidegger's Relativization of Death:Thrownness as Possibility to be Repeated -- Notes -- Chapter Six: Originary Inauthenticity: On Heidegger's Sein und Zeit -- Notes -- Part III: Subjectivities -- Chapter Seven: Levinas and Heidegger: Ethics or Ontology? -- Notes -- Chapter Eight: Useless Sacrifice -- Notes -- Chapter Nine: The Question of Responsibility between Levinas and Heidegger -- Levinas's Expropriation of Egological Responsibility -- The Escape from Ontology -- The Death of the Other as Origin of Responsibility -- Responsibility for the Other as Expropriation of the Subject -- Overcoming Egology? -- Heidegger and Originary Responsibility -- Of a Nonsubjective Responsibility -- The Otherness of Responsibility -- Responsibility to a Secret -- Notes -- Part IV: Other Others.

Chapter Ten: Displaced: Phenomenology and Belonging in Levinas and Heidegger -- Belonging to Heidegger -- Disruption and Deworlding: The Animal as the Other -- Displaced Persons -- Levinas, or, The Persistence of Deworlding -- Notes -- Chapter Eleven: Which Other, Whose Alterity?: The Human after Humanism -- Notes -- Chapter Twelve: Elsewhere of Home -- The Monolingual House of Being -- Levinas, Home, Immanence -- Thresholds and Hybridities -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.