Richard A. Cohen is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Jewish Thought at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His books include Ricoeur as Another: The Ethics of Subjectivity (coedited with James L. Marsh) and Face to Face with Levinas, both also published by SUNY Press.

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Levinas, Spinozism, Nietzsche, and the Body
2. Prophetic Speech in Levinas and Spinoza (and Maimonides)
3. Levinas and Spinoza: To Love God for Nothing
4. Levinas and Spinoza: Justice and the State
5. Spinoza's Prince: For Whom Is the Theological-Political Treatise Written?
6. Levinas on Spinoza's Misunderstanding of Judaism
7. Thinking Least about Death: Mortality and Morality in Spinoza, Heidegger, and Levinas
8. Spinoza's Spleen: "Babies, Fools, and Madmen"
Works Cited
Index