A clear overview of the philosophical thinking of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most significant philosophers of the late twentieth century.

Michael Morgan works an office job downtown, is a member of a social committee and loves to cook. A simple man with big dreams.

Introduction; 1. Responding to atrocity in the twentieth century; 2. How to read Levinas: normativity and transcendental philosophy; 3. The ethical content of the face-to-face; 4. Philosophy, totality, and the everyday; 5. Subjectivity and the self: passivity and freedom; 6. God, philosophy, and the ground of the ethical; 7. Time, history, and messianism; 8. Greek and Hebrew; Conclusions, puzzles, problems; Annotated reading list and bibliography.