Foreword

ix

Acknowledgments

xv

Prologue: Letting Levinas Wake Us Up

xvii

1. Why This Book Worried Me

xvii

2. Face-to-Face Encounters on Interstate 84

xxi

3. What Is a Face-to-Face Encounter?

xxiv

4. Sobriety and Amnesia

xxix

5. What I Try to Do in This Book

xxxi

Chapter 1: Why Is It Hard to Talk about Justice?

1

1. Introduction

1

2. Is Levinas a Nuisance?

3

3. A Brief Introduction to Levinas: Transcendence and Humanity

7

4. The Ineffability Hypothesis

11

5. The Pros and Cons of Silence

13

6. Why Is It Hard to Talk about Justice?

16

Chapter 2: Murder and Moral Realism

31

1. Introduction

31

2. What’s So Special about Murder?

37

3. Murder’s Impossibility

38

4. Objections, Replies, and Indirect Angles: Or, Evil

42

5. Realism with a (Real) Human Face: Ethical Metaphysics

45

6. Why Is It Hard to Talk about Moral Facts?

50

7. Conclusion: Questioning the Ineffability Hypothesis

52