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Tables of Contents for Otherwise Than Being
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
6
Richard A. Cohen
Translator's Introduction
xvii
30
Alphonso Lingis
Translator's Note
xlvii
THE ARGUMENT
1
20
Chapter I. Essense and Disinterest
3
18
1. Being's "Other"
3
1
2. Being and Interest
4
1
3. The Said and the Saying
5
3
4. Subjectivity
8
1
5. Responsibility for the Other
9
2
6. Essence and Signification
11
3
7. Sensibility
14
1
8. Being and Beyond Being
15
2
9. Subjectivity is not a Modality of Essence
17
2
10. The Itinerary
19
2
THE EXPOSITION
21
152
Chapter II. Intentionality and Sensing
23
38
1. Questioning and Allegiance to the Other
23
3
2. Questioning and Being: Time and Reminiscence
26
5
3. Time and Discourse
31
14
a. Sensuous Lived Experience
31
3
b. Language
34
3
c. The Said and the Saying
37
1
d. The Amphibology of Being and Entities
38
5
e. The Reduction
43
2
4. Saying and Subjectivity
45
16
a. The Saying without the Said
45
3
b. Saying as Exposure to Another
48
3
c. Despite Oneself
51
2
d. Patience, Corporeality, Sensibility
53
3
e. The One
56
1
f. Subjectivity and Humanity
57
4
Chapter III. Sensibility and Proximity
61
38
1. Sensibility and Cognition
61
4
2. Sensibility and Signification
65
3
3. Sensibility and Psyche
68
4
4. Enjoyment
72
3
5. Vulnerability and Contact
75
6
6. Proximity
81
18
a. Proximity and Space
81
2
b. Proximity and Subjectivity
83
3
c. Proximity and Obsession
86
3
d. Phenomenon and Face
89
4
e. Proximity and Infinity
93
1
f. Signification and Existence
94
5
Chapter IV. Substitution
99
32
1. Principle and Anarchy
99
3
2. Recurrence
102
7
3. The Self
109
4
4. Substitution
113
5
5. Communication
118
3
6. "Finite Freedom"
121
10
Chapter V. Subjectivity and Infinity
131
42
1. Signification and the Objective Relation
131
9
a. The Subject Absorbed by Being
131
1
b. The Subject at the Service of the System
132
2
c. The Subject as a Speaking that is Absorbed in the Said
134
1
d. The Responsible Subject that is not Absorbed in Being
135
1
e. The One-for-the-Other is not a Commitment
136
4
2. The Glory of the Infinite
140
13
a. Inspiration
140
2
b. Inspiration and Witness
142
2
c. Sincerity and the Glory of the Infinite
144
1
d. Witness and Language
145
4
e. Witness and Prophecy
149
4
3. From Saying to the Said, or the Wisdom of Desire
153
9
4. Sense and the There Is
162
3
5. Skepticism and Reason
165
8
IN OTHER WORDS
173
2
Chapter VI. Outside
175
12
Notes
187
14
Index
201