Emmanuel Levinas's Books

God, Death, and Time

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses on ethical relation Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne. In seeking to explain his thought to students, he utilizes a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his other writings.

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0804736669

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Emmanuel Levinas

Basic Philosophical Writings

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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Emmanuel Levinas

Basic Philosophical Writings

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and offers insights into his most innovative ideas. Five of the ten essays presented here appear in English for the first time. An introduction by Adriaan Peperzak outlines Levinas's philosophical development and the basic themes of his writings. Each essay is accompanied by a brief introduction and notes. This collection is an ideal text for students of philosophy concerned with understanding and assessing the work of this major philosopher.

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Indiana University Press

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0253210798

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On Escape

De l’évasion

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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On Escape

De l’évasion

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a direction to it. Beginning with an analysis of need not as lack or some external limit to a self-sufficient being, but as a positive relation to our being, Levinas moves through a series of brilliant phenomenological analyses of such phenomena as pleasure, shame, and nausea in order to show a fundamental insufficiency in the human condition. In his critical introduction and annotation, Jacques Rolland places On Escape in its historical and intellectual context, and also within the context of Levinas's entire oeuvre, explaining Levinas's complicated relation to Heidegger, and underscoring the way Levinas's analysis of "being riveted," of the need for escape, is a meditation on the body.

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Stanford University Press

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0804741409

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Time and the Other

(and Additional Essays)

By: Emmanuel Lévinas,Richard A. Cohen

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Time and the Other

(and Additional Essays)

By: Emmanuel Lévinas,Richard A. Cohen

Emmanuel Levinas is a major voice in twentieth century European thought. Beginning his intellectual career in the 1920s, he has developed an original and comprehensive post rationalist ethics of social responsibility and obligation. The influence of his work has already been profound and far-reaching, readily acknowledged by such diverse and important figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, and Enrique Dussel. Time and The Other was first presented as a series of lectures in 1946-47 at the College Philosophique and is probably the clearest statement of Levinas' thought. Along with Existence and Existents (1947), it represents the first formulation of Levinas' own philosophy, later more fully developed in Totality and Infinity (1961) and Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence (1974

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0820702331

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9780820702339

Humanism of the Other

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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Humanism of the Other

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

This work, a philosophical reaction to prevailing nihilism in the 1960's is urgent reading today when a new sort of nihilism, parading in the very garments of humanism, threatens to engulf our civilization. ---- A key text in Levinas' work, introduces the concept of the humanity of each human being as only understood and discovered through understanding the humanity of others first.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252028406

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9780252028403

Of God Who Comes to Mind

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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Of God Who Comes to Mind

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

The thirteen essays collected in this volume investigate the possibility that the word "God" can be understood now, at the end of the twentieth century, in a meaningful way. Nine of the essays appear in English translation for the first time. Among Levinas's writings, this volume distinguishes itself, both for students of his thought and for a wider audience, by the range of issues it addresses. Levinas not only rehearses the ethical themes that have led him to be regarded as one of the most original thinkers working out of the phenomenological tradition, but he also takes up philosophical questions concerning politics, language, and religion. The volume situates his thought in a broader intellectual context than have his previous works. In these essays, alongside the detailed investigations of Husserl, Heidegger, Rosenzweig, and Buber that characterize all his writings, Levinas also addresses the thought of Kierkegaard, Marx, Bloch, and Derrida. Some essays provide lucid expositions not available elsewhere to key areas of Levinas's thought. "God and Philosophy" is perhaps the single most important text for understanding Levinas and is in many respects the best introduction to his works. "From Consciousness to Wakefulness" illuminates Levinas's relation to Husserl and thus to phenomenology, which is always his starting point, even if he never abides by the limits it imposes. In "The Thinking of Being and the Question of the Other," Levinas not only addresses Derrida's Speech and Phenomenon but also develops an answer to the later Heidegger's account of the history of Being by suggesting another way of reading that history. Among the other topics examined in the essays are the Marxist concept of ideology, death, hermeneutics, the concept of evil, the philosophy of dialogue, the relation of language to the Other, and the acts of communication and mutual understanding.

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Stanford University Press

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0804730946

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9780804730945

Entre Nous

Thinking-of-the-other

By: Emmanuel Levinas

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Entre Nous

Thinking-of-the-other

By: Emmanuel Levinas

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a leading philosopher and Talmudic commentator. This book is a major collection of essays representing the culmination of Levinas's philosophy. It gathers his important work and reveals the development of his thought. It looks at issues of suffering, love, religion, culture, justice, human rights, and legal theory.

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0826490794

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Outside the Subject

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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Outside the Subject

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

This volume consists of fourteen pieces selected by Levinas himself in 1987 from a large body of uncollected essays.

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Stanford University Press

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0804721998

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9780804721998

Alterity and Transcendence

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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Alterity and Transcendence

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

This first English translation of a series of twelve essays offers a unique glimpse of Levinas defining his own place in the history of philosophy. In today's world, where religious conceptions of exalted higher powers are constantly called into question by theoretical investigation and by the powerful influence of science and technology on our understanding of the universe, has the notion of transcendence been stripped of its significance? In Levinas's incisive model, transcendence is indeed alive--not in any notion of our relationship to a mysterious, sacred realm but in the idea of our worldly, subjective relationships to others.

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Columbia University Press

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0231116519

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9780231116510

The Levinas Reader

By: Sean Hand

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The Levinas Reader

By: Sean Hand

Emmanuel Levinas has been Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and the director of the Ecole Normale Israelite Orientale. Through such works as "Totality and Infinity" and "Otherwise than Being", he has exerted a profound influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy, providing inspiration for Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot and Irigaray. "The Levinas Reader" collects, often for the first time in English, essays by Levinas encompassing every aspect of his thought: the early phenomenological studies written under the guidance and inspiration of Husserl and Heidegger; the fully developed ethical critique of such totalizing philosophies; the pioneering texts on the moral dimension to aesthetics; the rich and subtle readings of the Talmud which are an exemplary model of an ethical, transcendental philosophy at work; the admirable meditations on current political issues. Sean Hand's introduction gives a complete overview of Levinas's work and situates each chapter within his general contribution to phenomenology, aesthetics, religion, politics and, above all, ethics. Each essay has been prefaced with a brief introduction presenting the basic issues and the necessary background, and suggesting ways to study the text further.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631164472

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9780631164470

Unforeseen History

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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Unforeseen History

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

Unforseen History covers the years of 1929-92, providing a wide overview of Levinas's work - especially his views on aesthetics and Judaism - offering examples of his precise thinking at work in small essays, long essays, and interviews." --Book Jacket.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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025202883X

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9780252028830

Discovering Existence with Husserl

By: Emmanuel Levinas

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Discovering Existence with Husserl

By: Emmanuel Levinas

This volume collects most of Levinas' articles on Husserlian phenomenology, gathering together a wealth of exposition and interpretation by one of the most important 20th century European philosophers.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810113619

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9780810113619

Beyond the Verse

Talmudic Readings and Lectures

By: Emmanuel Levinas

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Beyond the Verse

Talmudic Readings and Lectures

By: Emmanuel Levinas

Available in paperback for the first time, this is an important collection of essays dealing with problems in Jewish thought.

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0485114305

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9780485114300

Is It Righteous to Be?

Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas

By: Emmanuel Lévinas,Jill Robbins

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Is It Righteous to Be?

Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas

By: Emmanuel Lévinas,Jill Robbins

In the twenty interviews collected in this volume, seventeen of which appear in English for the first time, Levinas sets forth the central features of his ethical philosophy and discusses biographical matters not available elsewhere.

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0804743096

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Totality and Infinity

An Essay on Exteriority

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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Totality and Infinity

An Essay on Exteriority

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

First published in English by Duquesne in 1969, this has become one of the classics of modern philosophy.

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0820702455

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9780820702452

Nine Talmudic Readings

By: Emmanuel Levinas

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Nine Talmudic Readings

By: Emmanuel Levinas

These nine masterful readings of the Talmud by the renowned French Jewish philosopher translate Jewish thought into the language of modern times. One of the major continental philosophers of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas was also an important Talmudic commentator. Between 1963 and 1975, he delivered an enlightening and influential series of commentaries at the annual Talmudic colloquia of a group of French Jewish intellectuals in Paris. In this collection, Levinas applies a hermeneutic that simultaneously allows the classic Jewish texts to shed light on contemporary problems and lets modern problems illuminate the texts. Besides being quintessential illustrations of the art of reading, the essays express the deeply ethical vision of the human condition that makes Levinas one of the most important thinkers of our time.

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Indiana University Press

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0253040507

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Emmanuel Levinas

Basic Philosophical Writings

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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Basic Philosophical Writings

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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The Theory of Intuition in Husserl's Phenomenology

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

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The Theory of Intuition in Husserl's Phenomenology

By: Emmanuel Lévinas

In this landmark study, Emmanuel Levinas discusses the aspects and function of intuition in Husserl's thought and its meaning for philosophical self-reflection. An essential and illuminating explication of central issues in Husserl's phenomenology, it is also important as a formative work of one of this century's most distinguished philosophers. Levinas focuses on the role of intuition, which he explains as "the theoretical act of consciousness that makes objects present to us". He demonstrates how Husserl's theory of intuition follows directly from his new conception of being. He then identifies intuition as the original phenomenon that leads to the concept of truth itself. In this analysis, he shows that Husserl's theory of being opens up an entirely new philosophical dimension.

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0810112817

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9780810112810

Is It Righteous to Be?

Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas

By: Emmanuel Lévinas,Jill Robbins

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Is It Righteous to Be?

Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas

By: Emmanuel Lévinas,Jill Robbins

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Difficult Freedom

Essays on Judaism

By: Emmanuel Levinas

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Difficult Freedom

Essays on Judaism

By: Emmanuel Levinas

Topics include ethics, aesthetics, politics, messianism, Judaism and women, and Jewish-Christian relations, as well as the work of Spinoza, Hegel, Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig, Simone Weil, and Jules Issac.

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