摘要：Drew Dalton's Longing for the Other is an impressive book due to its being analytically rigorous, philosophically fecund, and historically sensitive.1Motivated by Dalton's book, in what follows, I will engage in something of a thought-experiment regarding Levinasian philosophy of religion.2Though I will only be able to trace the rough outlines of an argument that will admittedly need filled-out in another essay, my, albeit tentative, hypothesis is that, contra Dalton, Levinas's philosophy might require a decidedly personalistic notion of the divine if his account of " God" is to do the philosophical work it seems intended to do. My, also tentative, conclusion is that Continental philosophers of religion who would resist such a personalist approach to the divine ought to offer arguments that personalism is false rather than simply assuming that it is a non-starter due to some of Levinas's own remarks
