Preface Abbreviations of Levinas' Works Lecture One Hegel or Levinas? - Philosophy and Sexual Difference - Why Philosophy? The Problem of Method - Against Aristotle: The Meaning of Drama - Moral Ambiguity - The Seduction of Facticity - At War with Oneself - Heidegger's Comedy Turns Tragic - The Theology of Clothes - Beyond the Tragedy of Finitude - A Happy Ending Lecture Two Hitlerism Against Liberalism - Elemental Evil - The Marxist Critique of Liberalism and a Critique of Marxism - Embodiment and Racism - Why Europe is So Great - The Bio-Politics of Fascism - French Philosophy is Not Pornography - Escape: The Ur-Form of Levinas' Thought - Being Riveted and the Need for Excendence - Desire and Malaise - Pleasure and Shame - I Love Phaedra - The Impotence of Being - Is There a Way Out of Barbarism? - Levinas in Captivity Lecture Three The Break-up of Fate - How to Build an Immonument - Ethics Back to Front - Levinas' Anarchism - Waving Goodbye to the Principle of Non-Contradiction - The Weak Syntax of Skepticism - Escaping Evasion Through That Which Cannot Be Evaded - The Structure of Otherwise than Being - In Itself One: This is Not a Metaphor - Four Problems: Prescription, Agency, Masochism, Sublimation - Love Song Lecture Four Levinas' Marvelous Family - The Problem of Eros - Into the Abyss, the Inexistent - Why You Should All Have Children - Pluralism, the Break with the One - The Denouement of Levinas' Comedy - Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Messianism: The End of Totality and Infinity - Occupy Philosophy! Irigaray's Strategy - Shakespeare's Misogyny - The Song of Songs, Finally - Against Scholem, For Hysterical Extravagance - Mysticism in the Kitchen - All Mouth - Decreation, Annihilation - The Enjoyment of God - Sovereign Love Afterword Bibliography.