Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995)
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Emmanuel Levinas was born in Kovno, Lithuania, to an Orthodox Jewish family. Hebrew was the first language that he learned to read; he also acquired a love of the Russian classics, particularly works by Pushkin and Tolstoy which first stirred his philosophical interests. Levinas studied in visa mer Strasbourg, Freiburg, and Paris, developing a particular interest in the philosophers Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger. He became a French citizen and eventually a prisoner during World War II, at which time his entire family was exterminated. After the war, Levinas taught at Poitiers, Nanterre, and eventually became professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1973. He has also been deeply involved in the problems of Western Jews, including active membership in the Alliance Israelite Universelle, an organization established in 1860 to promote Jewish emancipation. The experience of the ravages of totalitarianism during World War II convinced Levinas that only a rediscovery of the specificity of Judaism could deliver the modern world from itself. Levinas's central concern is with "the other"---not the self or the cosmos, but the faces of other persons who make a claim on us and provide traces of the working of an infinite other. Totality and Infinity (1961) is a central but very difficult text. In it Levinas argues that Western philosophy has been captured by a notion of totality from which nothing is distant, exterior, or other and that, thus, when persons who are different confront such totalistic ways of living and thinking, they go to war. Moving beyond totality and war requires a notion of transcendence or infinity, which can bring peace. In fact, religion is, according to Levinas, "the bond that is established between the same and the other without constituting a totality." Levinas maintains that "the existence of God is not a question of an individual soul's uttering logical syllogisms. It cannot be proved. The existence of God . . . is sacred history itself, the sacredness of man's relation to man through which God may pass. God's existence is the story of his revelation in biblical history." Levinas has said that the most common objection to his thought is that it is utopian, for people are always asking, "Where did you ever see the ethical relation [with the other] practiced?" But Levinas is convinced that, although concern for the other is "always other than the "ways of the world,"' there are "many examples of it in the world." This is the reason that his writings on Judaism, such as Difficult Freedom (1963) and Nine Talmudic Essays (1968), are at least as important as his philosophical texts. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Emmanuel Levinas
Oeuvres : Tome 1, Carnets de captivité suivi de Ecrits sur la captivité et Notes philosophiques diverses (2009) 7 exemplar
Escritos inéditos 2: Palabra y silencio y otros escritos (Estructuras y Procesos. Filosofía) (Spanish Edition) (2015) 3 exemplar
ETIKA DHE PAFUNDESIA 2 exemplar
LA TEORIA DELL'INTUIZIONE 1 exemplar
The name of a dog, or natural rights 1 exemplar
Da Evasão 1 exemplar
Basic philosophical writings. 1 exemplar
Kopstukken filosofie : Levinas 1 exemplar
全体性と無限 : 外部性についての試論 1 exemplar
Dall'esistenza all'esistente 1 exemplar
Totalità e infinito 1 exemplar
Etika dhe pafundësia 1 exemplar
貨幣の哲学 (叢書・ウニベルシタス) 1 exemplar
Totalidade e infinito 1 exemplar
Humanisme de l'autre homme 1 exemplar
Emmanuel Levinas 1 exemplar
Vergeving van het onvergeeflijke 1 exemplar
Signature 1 exemplar
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- Levinas, Emmanuel
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- Levinas, Emanuelis
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- 1906-01-12
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- 1995-12-25
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- Cimetière de Pantin, Paris, France
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Lithuania (birth) - Land (för karta)
- France
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- Kaunas, Lituanie
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- Paris, France
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- Kaunas, Lituanie (Empire russe)
Kharkov, Ukraine (Empire russe)
Strasbourg, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France
Fribourg-en-Brisgau, Bade-Wurtemberg, Allemagne
Paris, France - Utbildning
- Lycée de Kharkov, Ukraine, Empire russe
Université de Strasbourg (Philosophie, 1923-1927)
Université de Fribourg-en-Brisgau, Bade-Wurtemberg, Allemagne (Doctorat, Thèse " Théorie de l'intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl", 1930)
Université de Davos (1929) - Yrken
- Professeur (Philosophie)
Philosophe - Organisationer
- Université de Poitiers (Professeur, 1961-1967)
Université de Paris-Nanterre (Professeur, 1967-1973)
Université de la Sorbonne (Professeur, 1973-1976)
Alliance israélite universelle (AIU), Paris, France (Membre, 1933-1939, 1945)
Ecole normale israélite orientale (ENIO) (Direction)
Université de Fribourg (Chargé de cours, 1970-1980) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Prix Balzan(Philosophie, 1989)
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Dall'esistenza all'esistente av Emmanuel Levinas
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A quick and dirty intro to various Levinasian concepts extolled by the man himself. I very much enjoy Levinas' penchant for non-thematizable sections of our existence. I'm still not sure how to feel about him as a literary figure. When libraries open again, I'll make sure to check out one of his more substantial works. Existence and Existants seems the most interesting to me right now. If I ever end up reading more of the Bible, I'll definitely try and get my hands on one of his commentaries. He's definitely someone I'd trust with a task like that.… (mer)
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