Otherwise Than Being: Or Beyond Essence (1998 edition)

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Cover Page Inner Cover Publication Info Dedication Epigraph Table of Contents Foreword Translator's Introduction 1. Reduction to Responsible Subjectivity 2. The Facts of Responsibility 3. The Innovations of Otherwise Than Being 4. The Experience of Alterity: Its Temporal Format 5. Creative Contact 6. Substitution 7. The Theory of Subjectivity: Sensation and Significance 8. The Ipseity 9. Alterity and Infinity 10. The Entry of the Third Party: Responsibility and Justice 11. The Insurmountable Skepticism Note The Argument Chapter I - Essence and Disinterest 1. Being's "Other" 2. Being and Interest 3. The Said and the Saying 4. Subjectivity 5. Responsibility for the Other 6. Essence and Signification 7. Sensibility 8. Being and Beyond Being 9. Subjectivity is not a Modality of Essence 10. The Itenerary The Exposition Chapter II - Intentionality and Sensing 1. Questioning and Allegiance to the Other 2. Questioning and Being: Time and Reminiscence 3. Time and Discourse a. Sensuous Lived Experience b. Language c. The Said and the Saying d. The Amphibology of Being and Entities e. The Reduction 4. Saying and Subjectivity a. The Saying without the Said b. Saying an Exposure to Another c. Despite Oneself d. Patience, Corporeality, Sensibility e. The One f. Subjectivity and Humanity Chapter III - Sensibility and Proximity 1. Sensibility and Cognition 2. Sensibility and Signification 3. Sensibility and Psyche 4. Enjoyment 5. Vulnerability and Contact 6. Proximity a. Proximity and Space b. Proximity and Subjectivity c. Proximity and Obsession d. Phenomenon and Face e. Proximity and Infinity f. Signification and Existence Chapter IV - Substitution 1. Principle and Anarchy 2. Recurrence 3. The Self 4. Substitution 5. Communication 6. "Finite Freedom" Chapter V - Subjectivity and Infinity 1. Signification and Objective Relation a. The Subject Absorbed by Being b. The Subject at the Service of the System c. The Subject as a Speaking that is Absorbed in the Said d. The Responsible Subject that is not Absorbed in Being e. The-One-for-the-Other is not a Commitment 2. The Glory of the Infinite a. Inspiration b. Inspiration and Witness c. Sincerity and the Glory of the Infinite d. Witness and Language e. Witness and Prophecy 3. From Saying to the Said or the Wisdom of Desire 4. Sense and the There Is 5. Skepticism and Reason In Other Words Chapter VI - Outside Notes Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Index