Emmanuel Levinas

Emmanuel Levinas (12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work related to Jewish philosophy, existentialism, ethics, and ontology.

Literature

Books by Levinas

• Théorie de l'intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl, 1930; Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1963; new edition J. Vrin, 2000.
  • Theory of Intuition in Husserl's Phenomenology, trans. Andre Orianne, Northwestern University Press,1973; 2nd edition, 1995 (in English).
• with Heinz Erich Eisenhuth, Der Begriff des Irrationalen als philosophisches Problem, 1931 (in German)
• Martin Heidegger et l'ontologie, 1932
• Le Temps et l'autre, 1947; Fata Morgana, 1979; Presses Universitaires de France, 2004.
  • Time and the Other, trans. Richard A. Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1987 (in English).
• De l'existence ý l'existant, 1947.
  • Existence and Existent, trans. Alphonso Lingis, Duquesne University Press, 2001.
• Difficile liberté: Essais sur le judaïsme, Editions Albin Michel, 1963, 1967; LGF - Livre de Poche, 2003.
  • Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism, trans. Seán Hand, London: The Athlone Press, 1990; The Johns Hopkins University Press, paperbacks edition, 1997 (in English).
• Totalité et infini: Essai sur l'extériorité, 1961; Martinus Nijhoff, 1971; Livre de Poche, 2000.
  • Totality and Infinity, Springer, 1980 (in English).
• En découvrant l'existence avec Husserl et Heidegger 1949; revised edition 1967; Vrin, 2002.
  • Discovering Existence with Husserl, trans. Richard A. Cohen and Michael B. Smith, Northwestern University Press, 1998 (in English).
• Noms propres, Paris: Fata Morgana, 1976.
  • Proper Names, trans. Michael Smith, Stanford University Press, 1997.
• Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence, Martinus Nijhott & La Haye, 1974; Paris, LGF, Le Livre de Poche, 1990, 2004.
  • Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, trans. Alphonso Lingis, Duquesne University Press, 1998.
• Humanisme de l'autre homme, Fata Morgana, 1972; LGF, 1987.
  • Humanism of the Other, trans. Nidra Poller, University of Illinois Press, 2005.
• Quatre lectures talmudiques, 1968; Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 2005.
  • Nine Talmudic Readings, trans. Annette Aronowicz, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990; Midland Book Editions, 1994 (in English).
• De Dieu qui vient ý l'idée, Paris: Vrin, 1982.
  • Of God who Comes to Mind, trans. Bettina Bergo, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998 (in English).
• L'au-delà du verset: Lectures et Discours Talmudiques, Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1982.
  • Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures, trans. Gary Mole, London: The Athlone Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994 (in French).
• Du sacré au saint: Cinq nouvelles lectures talmudiques, Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1977.
• Ethique et infini, LGF, 1984
  • Ethics and Infinity, trans. Richard A. Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1985.
• Hors sujet, Fata Morgana, 1987
  • Outside the Subject, trans. Michael Smith (editor), Stanford University Press.
• A l'heure des nations, Editions de Minuit, 1988.
  • In the Time of Nations, trans. Michael B. Smith, The Athlone Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994; Continuum, 2007 (in English).
• Entre nous, Livre de Poche, 1993.
• Entre nous: Essais sur le penser-ý-l'autre, Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, 1991.
  • Entre nous : on thinking-of-the-other, trans. Michael B. Smith and Barbara Harshav, Columbia University Press, 1998 (in English).
• Altérité et transcendence, 1995
  • Alterity and Transcendence, trans. Michael B. Smith, London: The Athlone Press, 1999; Columbia University Press, 2000 (in English).

Books on Levinas

• John Llewelyn, Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics, London: Routledge, 1995.
• Oona Ajzenstat, Driven Back to the Text: the Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism, Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2001.
• C. Fred Alford, Levinas, the Frankfurt School and Psychoanalysis, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
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Selected articles

• "Is Ontology Fundamental?" (1951), trans. Peter Atterton, In: Philosophy Today, vol. 33 (Summer ‘89), , pp. 121-129.
• "Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism" (1934), trans. Sean Hand, In: Critical Inquiry, vol. 17 (Autumn 1990) pp. 62-71.

Collected works

• Collected Philosophical Papers, trans. Alphonso Lingis, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987 (in English).
• Les œuvres complètes, Editions Grasset-IMEC, vol. 1, 2009 (in French).

Bibliography

• http://www.egs.edu/library/emmanuel-levinas/bibliography/

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Levinas
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/
• http://www.egs.edu/library/emmanuel-levinas/bibliography/
• http://www.levinas.sdsu.edu/