Levinas and the Contemporary GazeContents Acknowledgements Preface: The Rule of the Frontal Ehies is an Opries: Preliminary Remarks Face 1 Face 2 Face 3 Face 4 Face 5 Face 6 Face 7 Talle1 Talk 2 Talk 3 Talk 4 Talk 5 Talk 6 Talk7 ores Index Face “The Gleam of Infinity How a Face Looks Face and Object Why a Face, All ofa Sudden? Vision, Gaze, Other Face and Resistance Outside Talk “The Face of Language Expression “The Firse Word Saying and Berraying Word, Window, Sereen Listening to a Big Bid “The Open B 29 43 49 53 81 85 91 95 99 5 125 131 37 48Preface ‘The Rule of the Frontal A: Where ate you By min a fic jam on the AS A calla ansier co a call question. ‘This i stateot the-art technology, and 4 new gencstion of phones i already avalable Beeween the poles, howerer, another event has alo taken place, ‘one that the digital media cannoc encode: you addressed me. A ‘question was asked, and the question, though no mote than yet another horizontal move in dhe boundles field of dig information, ‘continued to asonate like «voice within a well. This exonance stems fio the face this digital quston has latent, albeit orgoten dep stnucture. In the current ‘white are you?” question, a ancient one subrates ‘now meat is eaten with old forks’ as Brecht ites. This ancient question isthe one thac opens, for example, the dialogue Dberseen Socrates and Phaedrus when there too, as on the highay the {question dacs not appara the entre but indeed on the city’ mis ‘Phacdeus, whence come you, and whither ae you going?® Wha ae ‘the coordinate between which you move? Where in between them ae you located? What i your place? Originally, hough, the qustin {seven oder—adivine question, the fist question ~ the anc adresed ‘Adan in the wake ofthe ist sins And the Lvl God elle othe ‘man and sid whim, where are you" (Genesis 3). re you! question cll forth a kind of gaze that was To situate himself, Man (Adam) was required to dislodge his gaze ftom its immersion in things seen ‘there! and gather ic ack onto himself and onto the context in which hie life ‘unfolds. In order co answer the where’ question, Adam i requited