The Self-Emptying SubjectAgainst the two dominant ethical paradigms of continental philosophyEmmanuel Levinass ethics of the Other and Michel Foucaults ethics of self cultivationThe Self Emptying Subject theorizes an ethics of self emptying, or kenosis, that reveals the immanence of an impersonal and dispossessed life without a why. Rather than aligning immanence with the enclosures of the subject, The Self Emptying Subject engages the history of Christian mystical theology,