Leading Chinese and Western philosophers work alongside one another to explore the writings of one of the twentieth century s most perplexing and original ethical and metaphysical thinkers. Comparative discussion of L vinas on phenomenology, ethics, metaphysics and political philosophy within European philosophy and with Chinese philosophy Innovative accounts of L vinasian themes of surpassing phenomenology, post-Heideggerian philosophy, the philosophy of saintliness, transcendence and immanence, time and sensibility, desire, death, political philosophy, the subject, and the space of communicativity