Emmanuel Levinas

Emmanuel Levinas

1906–1995 · French / LT

Emmanuel Levinas was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ontology.

Balzan Prize (1989) Karl Jaspers Prize (1983) honorary doctor of Loyola University Chicago honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Honorary doctor of Leiden University (1975)
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2 books in collection

Must-Read 1998

Otherwise than Being

Philosophy
Must-Read 1961

Totality and Infinity

Philosophy