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 Levinas on phenomenology, ethics, metaphysics and political philosophy within European philosophy and with Chinese philosophyInnovative accounts of Levinasian 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