Crossover Queries -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: God: Desiring the Infinite -- Chapter 1: Intending Transcendence -- Chapter 2: Corporeality and the Glory of the Infinite inthe Philosophy of Levinas -- Chpater 3: Postmodern Saintliness -- Chapter 4: Levinas and Hillel's Questions -- Chapter 5: Recontextualizing the OntologicalArgument: A Lacanian Analysis -- Part II: Training Bodies: Pedagogies of Pain -- Chapter 6: Asceticism as Willed Corporeality -- Chapter 7: Blind Man Seeing -- Chapter 8: The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Heloise -- Chapter 9: From the Death of the Word to the Rise ofthe Image in the Choreography of MerceCunningham -- Part III: Bodies: Subject or Code? -- Chapter 10: Empathy and Sympathy as TactileEncounter -- Chapter 11: Levinas's Other and the Culture of the Copy -- Chapter 12: From Neo-Platonism to Souls in Silico -- Part IV: Nihilation and the Ethics of Alterity -- Chapter 13: The Semantic Spaces of Terror -- Chapter 14: The Warring Logics of Genocide -- Chapter 15: Incursions of Alterity -- Chapter 16: Memory, History, Revelation -- Chapter 17: Exemplary Individuals -- Part V: Conversations -- Chapter 18: Interview with Emmanuel Levinas -- Chapter 19: Postmodernism and the Desire for God -- Chapter 20: Heterological History -- Part VI: The Art in Ethics -- Chapter 21: Between Swooners and Cynics -- Chapter 22: Facts, Fiction, Ficciones -- Chapter 23: Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands -- Chapter 24: Killing the Cat -- Chapter 25: The Art in Ethics -- Part VII: Comparing Philosophies -- Chapter 26: The Moral Self -- Chapter 27: Autochthony and Welcome -- Chapter 28: Time and Nonbeing in Derrida and Quine -- Chapter 29: The Logic of Artifactual Existents -- Chapter 30: The Mathematical Model in Plato and SomeSurrogates in a Jain Theory of Knowledge.

Chapter 31: Soft Nominalism in Quine and the School of Dignaga -- Chapter 32: Fear of Primitives, Primitive Fears -- Notes -- Index.