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Emmanuel Levinas (/ ˈ l ɛ v ɪ n æ s /; French: [ɛmanɥɛl levinas]; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) 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.
Jul 23, 2006 · Emmanuel Levinas’ (1905–1995) intellectual project was to develop a first philosophy. Whereas traditionally first philosophy denoted either metaphysics or theology, only to be reconceived by Heidegger as fundamental ontology, Levinas argued that it is ethics that should be so conceived.
Emmanuel Lévinas was a Lithuanian-born French philosopher renowned for his powerful critique of the preeminence of ontology (the philosophical study of being) in the history of Western philosophy, particularly in the work of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976).
Aug 25, 2023 · Emmanuel Levinas identifies the face-to-face encounter with another human – the Other – as the foundational experience of ethical responsibility.
Jul 10, 2024 · This book provides a clear and helpful overview of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most significant and interesting philosophers of the late twentieth century. Michael L. Morgan presents an overall interpretation of Levinas' central principle that human existence is fundamentally ethical and that its ethical character is grounded in ...
Jun 5, 2012 · Summary. Emmanuel Levinas's life spans the twentieth century. He was born in 1906 and lived his youth in Kovno in Lithuania; he died in 1995 in Paris. Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and the great tradition of nineteenth-century Russian literature inspired him to philosophy.
In 1984, Levinas goes so far as to say, “the notion of transcendence, of alterity, of absolute novelty” has a unique relation to knowledge which, beyond the ‘fit’ between consciousness and its objects, “calls to another phenomenology, though it be the destruction of the phenomenology of appearing and knowledge”, (TeI: 17–18, my ...
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO EMMANUEL LEVINAS. This book provides a clear and helpful overview of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most significant and interesting phi-losophers of the late twentieth century.
Jul 23, 2006 · Emmanuel Levinas. First published Sun Jul 23, 2006; substantive revision Sun Mar 18, 2007. Levinas's philosophy has been called ethics. rationalist self-legislation and freedom (deontology), the calculation. of happiness (utilitarianism), or the cultivation of virtues (virtue. ethics), then Levinas's philosophy is not an ethics. Levinas claimed,
Emmanuel Levinas was born in 1906 in Kovno, Lithuania, a country where, as he explains, "Jewish culture was intellectually prized and fostered and where interpretation of biblical texts was cultivated to a high degree."1 In 1915, at the age of eleven, Levinas and his family moved to the Ukraine, when the Jews of Lithuania were expelled by the go...
