Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter One Incarceration and Transcendence
- Dispossession, Transcendence, Incarceration: Dostoevsky’s Notes from the House of the Dead and Levinas as Prisoner
2. Ethical Transcendence in Dostoevsky’s
Summer Notes on
Winter Impressions
3. The Face of the Peasant Marey
4.
Notes from the House of the Dead and Raskolnikov
5. The Meaning of Persecution: Dostoevsky and Levinas in
Captivity
Chapter Two Thinking God on the Basis of Ethics in Levinas’s Later Work
1. “God and Onto-Theo-Logy”
a. Thinking God on the Basis of Ethics
b. Witnessing and Ethics
2. “God and Philosophy”
a. The Priority of Philosophical Discourse, and Ontology
b. The Priority of Ontology and Immanence
c. The Idea of the Infinite
d. Divine Comedy
e. Phenomenology and Transcendence
f. Prophetic Signification
Chapter Three Thinking God on the Basis of Ethics in Dostoevsky’s Major
Novels
1. Godlessness, Belief, and Love in
Crime and Punishment
2. Belief in
The Idiot
3.
The Idiot: God, Justice, and Other Others
4. Belief in
Demons
5. “Come, Take me Instead of Him”: Responsibility as
Transcendence in
The Brothers Karamazov
6.
Demons: Responsibility Resisted and Tragically Deferred
7. The Belated Fissure of Secrecy in
Demons
8.
Demons: Inside-Out, Responsibility, and the Dalai Lama
Chapter Four Dostoevsky’s Anti-Semitism and the Torment of Belief
Chapter Five “The Death of a Certain God Inhabiting the World Behind the
Scenes”: Loss and Hope in
Otherwise than Being and Vasily
Grossman’s
Life and Fate
1. The Death of a Certain God Inhabiting the World Behind the Scenes
2. Thinking God on the Basis of Ethics in
Life and Fate
a.
Je dirai non, mio padre, je dirai non!
b. “He didn’t believe in God, but somehow it was as if God
were looking at him”
3. Turned Inside-Out: God, Transcendence, Hope
Epilogue