Totality and Infinity An Essay on Exteriority

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Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction Introduction Preface Preface Section I The Same and the Other A Metaphysics and Transcendence 1. Desire for the Invisible 2. The Breach of Totality 3. Transcendence Is Not Negativity 4. Metaphysics Precedes Ontology 5. Transcendence as the Idea of Infinity B Separation and Discourse 1. Atheism or the Will 2. Truth 3. Discourse 4. Rhetoric and Injustice 5. Discourse and Ethics 6. The Metaphysical and the Human 7. The Face to Face—An Irreducible Relation C Truth and Justice 1. Freedom Called into Question 2. The Investiture of Freedom, or Critique 3. Truth Presupposes Justice D Separation and Absoluteness Section II Interiority and Economy A Separation as Life 1. Intentionality and the Social Relation 2. Living from . . . (Enjoyment) The Notion of Accomplishment 3. Enjoyment and Independence 4. Need and Corporeity 5. Affectivity as the Ipseity of the I 6. The I of Enjoyment Is Neither Biological Nor Sociological B Enjoyment and Representation 1. Representation and Constitution 2. Enjoyment and Nourishment 3. Element and Things, Implements 4. Sensibility 5. The Mythical Format of the Element C I and Dependence 1. Joy and Its Morrows 2. The Love of Life 3. Enjoyment and Separation D The Dwelling 1. Habitation 2. Habitation and the Feminine 3. The Home and Possession 4. Possession and Labor 5. Labor, the Body, Consciousness 6. The Freedom of Representation and Gift E The World of Phenomena and Expression 1. Separation Is an Economy 2. Works and Expression 3. Phenomenon and Being Section III Exteriority and the Face A Sensibility and the Face B Ethics and the Face 1. Infinity and the Face 2. Ethics and the Face 3. Reason and the Face 4. Discourse Founds Signification 5. Language and Objectivity 6. The Other and the Others 7. The Asymmetry of the Interpersonal 8. Will and Reason C The Ethical Relation and Time 1. Subjectivity and Pluralism 2. Commerce, the Historical Relation, and the Face 3. The Will and Death 4. Time and the Will: Patience 5. The Truth of the Will Section IV Beyond the Face A The Ambiguity of Love B Phenomenology of Eros C Fecundity D The Subjectivity in Eros E Transcendence and Fecundity F Filiality and Fraternity G The Infinity of Time Conclusions 1. From the Like to the Same 2. Being Is Exteriority 3. The Finite and the Infinite 4. Creation 5. Exteriority and Language 6. Expression and Image 7. Against the Philosophy of the Neuter 8. Subjectivity 9. The Maintenance of Subjectivity The Reality of the Inner Life and the Reality of the State The Meaning of Subjectivity 10. Beyond Being 11. Freedom Invested 12. Being as Goodness—the I—Pluralism—Peace