Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority

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 the Absolute.- Section II. Interiority and Economy.- A. Separation as Life.- 1. Intentionality…