“It is for this reason that it becomes philo-sophy of immanence and of autonomy, or atheism. The Gods of the philosophers, from Aristotle to Leibniz, by way of the God of the scholastics, is a god adequate to reason, a comprehended god who could not trouble the autonomy of consci-ousness, which finds itself again in all its adventures, returning home to itself like Uly-sses, who through all his peregrinations is only on the way to his native island.”

• Emmanuel Levinas