Sarah Allen teaches philosophy at Concordia University. She is the author of, most recently, The Philosophical Sense of Transcendence: Levinas and Plato on Loving Beyond Being (Duquesne University Press, forthcoming), Levinas: Philosophy and Responsibility (Zeta Books, 2007), and "Loving the Good Beyond Being: The Paradoxical Sense of Levinas's 'Return' to Platonism," in Studia Phenomenologica (2007).