The essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo acquire during this quantity find a number of affinities among the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas. either philosophers query the character of subjectivity and the which means of accountability after the "death of God." whereas Nietzsche poses the dilemmas of a self and not using a floor and of ethics at a time of cultural upheaval and demystification, Levinas wrestles with subjectivity and the sheer probability of ethics after the Shoah. either argue that goodness exists independently of calculative cause& mdash;for Nietzsche, goodness arises in an artistic act relocating past response and ressentiment; Levinas argues that goodness happens in a spontaneous reaction to a different individual. In an international straight away with out God and haunted through a number of divinities, Nietzsche and Levinas reject transcendental foundations for politics and paintings towards another imaginative and prescient encompassing a favorable feel of construction, a fancy fraternity or friendship, and rival notions of responsibility.

Stauffer and Bergo team arguments round the following debates, that are faraway from settled: what's the reevaluation of ethics (and existence) that Nietzsche and Levinas suggest, and what does this indicate for politics and sociality? what's a human topic& mdash;and what are substance, permanence, causality, and identification, even if social or moral& mdash;in the wake of the death of God because the optimum being and the basis of what's strong in life? ultimately, how can a "God" nonetheless inhabit philosophy, and how much identify is that this within the considered Nietzsche and Levinas?