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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 · 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.
Levinas recounts being questioned by Latin American clerics about the empirical evidence of the Same concerned by the Other to the point of feeling divided in itself. Levinas provides ‘evidence’: “at least here…in this group of students…who nevertheless had no other subjects of conversation than the crisis” in Latin America. See ...
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.
Jun 27, 2024 · ‘Situating Levinas’s thought within twentieth-century debates on the sources of normativity, The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas argues for the originality of Levinas’s position as an account of ordinary life and what it is to live that life meaningfully and morally.
