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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).
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Aug 25, 2023 · Learn how Levinas's ethical philosophy centers on the face-to-face encounter with the Other, which implies an infinite and asymmetrical responsibility for the stranger. Explore how Levinas's ethics challenges traditional philosophical concepts of subject, object, and relation.
Jun 27, 2024 · 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 ...
Jul 23, 2006 · Introduction. 1.1 Overview of Levinas's Philosophy. 1.2 Life and Career. 2. Philosophical Beginnings: Transcendence as the Need to Escape. 3. Inflections of Transcendence and Variations on Being. 4. Transcendence as Responsibility, and Beyond. 4.1 Logic of Totality and Infinity. 4.2 Time and Transcendence in Totality and Infinity.
