Epigraph: I am responsible for the good of the other come what may: that is, my responsibility is anarchic, on the hither side of moral principles and the reasonings that provide their support – which means, among other things, that my relation to others is not one of knowing but, as Levinas likes to put it, one of proximity, as of skin exposed to touch.
– Gerald L. Bruns, ‘Should Poetry Be Ethical or Otherwise?’