Provocation of Levinas

There is a growing recognition of Levinas's importance. It can in part be attributed to an increasing concern that twentieth-century continental philosophy seems to have no place for ethics. In making ethics fundamental to philosophy rather than a problem to which we might one day return Levinas transforms continental thought. The book brings together some of the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas in three different areas: contemporary feminism psychotherapy and Levinas's relation to other philosophers. It includes a newly translated paper by Levinas on suffering and a specially commissioned interview.