摘要：Most book reviews are critical assessments of the claims made by the author of the book under consideration. Usually, then, a review symposium is structured as a series of reviews that are followed by a response by the author, who in most cases attempts to defend herself against the objections that have been raised. This review symposium is different. Originating as a book session on Drew M. Dalton's Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire (Duquesne U.P., 2009), which was organized by Micha el Paradiso-Michau for the 2011 meeting of the North American Lev inas Society (NALS), the engagements with Dalton's book were explicitly meant to be constructive attempts to think in light of Longing for the Other and not simply critical assessments of it. Accordingly, Drew Dalton's own essay was presented first as a way of setting up what he took to be the main stakes of his book and the places where his thought has subsequently progressed since its publication. Then, Michael Paradiso-Michau, Kris Sealey, and I, all offered essays that attempted to think-with Dalton by thinking-after him, as it were. What occurred at the NALS meeting in College Station, Texas, was a robust dialogue that opened fecund spaces for further thought
