This book expands upon Levinas' work to explore broader questions of interpretation in ethical thinking.

Introduction: philosophy as ethical exegesis; Part I. Exceeding Phenomenology: 1. Bergson and the emergence of an ecological age; 2. Science: phenomenology, intuition and philosophy; 3. The good work of Edmund Husserl; 4. Better than a questionable Heidegger; Part II. Good and Evil: 5. Alterity and alteration: development of an opus; 6. Maternal body/maternal psyche: contra psychoanalytic philosophy; 7. Humanism and the rights of exegesis; 8. What good is the Holocaust? On suffering and evil; 9. Ricoeur and the lure of self-esteem; 10. In conclusion; Index.