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Emmanuel Levinas’ and Jacques Derrida’ s theories of names and naming are discussed in a context that casts light upon the complex relationships among names and the named on the one hand, and onomastics and other fields and discourses on the other. Such other fields are anthropology, (cultural) history, politics, and ethics. Levinas’ phenomenological view of naming and Derrida's use of Levinas in a markedly “poststructuralist” analysis both stress the moral dimension of onomastic acts, how much is at stake in the way we deal with other people's names.

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Major writers belonging to whatChristian Moraru calls the "Kafka network"are, as the critic argues, behind watershed realignments and redistributions in the literary and conceptual makeup of modernity.Specifically, the critic proposes that these

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