Introduction

ethical criticism

1-11

Otherness, altericide

12-30

Hermeneutic and ethical encounters

Gadamer and Levinas

31-46

Ethics, fiction, and the death of the other

Sartre and Kant

47-63

Camus, encounters, reading

64-85

Didacticism and the ethics of failure

Beauvoir

86-107

Humanism and its others

Sartre, Heidegger, Yourcenar

108-130

Ethical indifference

Duras

131-151

Readers, others

Genet

152-188

Conclusion

tarrying with the negative

Amy E. Varela

189-195