"Flipping the deck": on totality and infinity's transcendental

ENJack Marsh revisits this site with particular interest in identifying the methodological justification for claims that often seem to rest precisely on mutual confirmation between extraordinarily forceful claims about the subject and about the Other. “Flipping the deck” is, as many will know, an expression from card play: a skilled dealer can overturn an entire range of cards first to last and last to first - likewise, a skilled apologete can reverse an entire argument from the premise immediately at hand all the way to its antipode - in a single move that skips the labor of moving laboriously from each single step to the next one. Marsh proposes that we find this sort of gesture at work in Levinas’s text, and he wishes to disrupt it in order to pause over details many have thought are passed over too quickly.