Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Passion of Time: Au moment voulu (Nietzsche- Heidegger-Blanchot) -- 2. Dwelling: Between Poiēsis and Technē -- 3. The Enigma of Manifestation (Figuration in Heidegger) -- 4. Plot and Intrigue: from Being's Other to the ''Otherwise than Being'' (Language, Ethics, Poetry in Levinas) -- 5. Art's Inhumanity: ''Reality and Its Shadow'' -- 6. ''The Writing of the Outside'' (The ''Potentialities of Literary Language'' in Otherwise than Being) -- 7. The Unerasable Difference: Levinas in Blanchot -- Postface -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index