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'''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.
 
'''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.
  
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==Biography==
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==Works==
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Emmanuel Levinas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1906. His parents were Jewish, and in his youth, Levinas read the Bible in Hebrew. Russian was the language of his early education, though he was also fluent in German. His studies in philosophy began in 1923 in Strasbourg, where he met Charles Blondel, and his life-long companion Maurice Blanchot. Levinas attended Husserl's final lectures of 1928-9, and became influenced by Husserl's Logical Investigations, though he quickly became a follower of Heidegger's Being and Time, which was to have a profound effect on his thinking.
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(in French unless noted)
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===Books===
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* ''La théorie de l'intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl'', Paris: Alcan, 1930; Paris: Vrin, 1963; new ed., J. Vrin, 2000. Dissertation.
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_The_Theory_of_Intuition_in_Husserls_Phenomenology_2nd_ed_1995.pdf|''The Theory of Intuition in Husserl's Phenomenology'']], trans. Andre Orianne, Northwestern University Press, 1973; 2nd ed., 1995 (in English).
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* with Heinz Erich Eisenhuth, ''Der Begriff des Irrationalen als philosophisches Problem'', 1931. (in German)
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* ''Martin Heidegger et l'ontologie'', 1932.
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* ''De l'évasion'', 1935; new ed., notes Jacques Rolland, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1982.
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** ''On Escape / De l'évasion'', trans. Bettina G. Bergo, Stanford University Press, 2003. (in English)
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* ''Quelques réflexions sur la philosophie de l'hitlérisme'', 1934; ed. Miguel Abensour, Paris: Rivages, 1997.
  
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Levinas' later philosophy is directly related to his experiences during World War II. In 1939, he served as an officer in the French army, working as an interpreter of Russian and German. In 1940 he became a prisoner of war, and due to his officer status he was sent to a military prisoners' camp where he was put into forced labor. His wife and daughter managed to be kept hidden in a French monastery until his return, but the rest of his family were killed. This experience, coupled with Heidegger's affiliation to National Socialism during the war, led to a profound crisis in Levinas' enthusiasm for Heidegger.
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* ''De l'existence à l'existant'', 1947; 2nd ed., Paris: Vrin, 1986.
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** ''Existence and Existents'', trans. Alphonso Lingis, The Hague and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. (in English)
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* "Le temps et l'autre", in ''Le choix, le monde, l'existence'', ed. Jean Wahl, Grenoble: Arthaud, 1947; repr. as ''Le temps et l'autre'', Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1979; Paris: PUF, 2004.
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Time_and_the_Other_1987.Pdf|''Time and the Other'']], trans. Richard A. Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1987. (in English)
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* ''En découvrant l'existence avec Husserl et Heidegger'', 1949; rev.ed., Paris: Vrin, 1967.
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Discovering_Existence_with_Husserl_1998.pdf|''Discovering Existence with Husserl'']], trans. Richard A. Cohen and Michael B. Smith, Northwestern University Press, 1998. (in English)
  
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Levinas' career after his confinement during the war was spent at the Alliance Israelite Universelle, where he was appointed the Director. The postwar years were marked by his meeting with the Talmudic scholar, Monsieur Chouchani, with whom Levinas studied.  
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* [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Totalit%C3%A9_et_infini_essai_sur_l_ext%C3%A9riorit%C3%A9_2000.pdf|''Totalité et infini: essai sur l'extériorité'']], The Hague and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1961; Martinus Nijhoff, 1971; Livre de Poche, 2000.
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Totality_and_Infinity_2nd_ed_1979.pdf|''Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority'']], trans. Alphonso Lingis, Duquesne University Press, 1969; 2nd ed., 1979; Springer, 1980. (in English) [http://chungsoolee.com/files/Totality_and_Infinity_Whole_book_Word_PDF_2012-03-14.pdf]
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* ''Difficile liberté: Essais sur le judaïsme'', Paris: Albin Michel, 1963; 1967; 3rd ed., rev., Paris: Albin Michel, 1976.
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Difficult_Freedom_Essays_on_Judaism_1997.pdf|''Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism'']], trans. Seán Hand, London: Athlone Press, 1990; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. (in English)
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* ''Quatre lectures talmudiques'', Paris: Minuit, 1968; Paris: Minuit, 2005.
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Nine_Talmudic_Readings_1994.pdf|''Nine Talmudic Readings'']], trans. Annette Aronowicz, Indiana University Press, 1990; Midland Book Editions, 1994. This translation regroups the lectures of 1968 and 1977. (in English)
  
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His writing is reticent toward the privileging of drawing sameness between distinct phenomena, characteristic of much of Western thought. Even the definition of the Other could be considered an application of the rhetoric of the same, hence, Levinas went to great lengths to keep his texts flexible, changing and resistant to reification, a violence to the fragile concept of the alterity of the inassimilable Other.
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* [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Humanisme_de_l_autre_homme_1987.pdf|'' Humanisme de l'autre homme'']], Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1972; LGF, 1987.
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Levinas died in Paris, December 25, 1995 [http://www.egs.edu/library/emmanuel-levinas/biography/].
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** ''Humanism of the Other'', trans. Nidra Poller, intro. Richard A. Cohen, University of Illinois Press, 2003. (in English)
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* [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Autrement_qu_etre_ou_au_dela_de_l_essence_1974.pdf|''Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence'']], The Hague and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974; 2nd ed., LA Haye, 1978; Paris: LGF - Le Livre de Poche, 1990; 2004.
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** ''Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence'', trans. Alphonso Lingis, Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer, 1978. (in English)
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** ''De otro modo que ser, o mas alla de la esencia'', Salamanca: Sigueme, 1987. (in Spanish)
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* ''Sur Maurice Blanchot'', Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1976.
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* with Xavier Tilliette and Paul Ricœur, ''Jean Wahl et Gabriel Marcel'', Paris: Beauchesne, 1976.
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* ''Noms propres: Agnon, Buber, Celan, Delhomme, Derrida, Jabès, Kierkegaard, Lacroix, Laporte, Picard, Proust, Van Breda, Wahl'', Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1976.
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** ''Proper Names'', trans. Michael B. Smith, Stanford University Press, 1997. (in English)
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* ''Du sacré au saint: Cinq nouvelles lectures talmudiques'', Paris: Minuit, 1977.
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* ''De Dieu qui vient à l'idée'', Paris: Vrin, 1982; 2nd ed., corr. & enl., Paris: Vrin, 1986.
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Of_God_Who_Comes_to_Mind_1998.pdf|''Of God who Comes to Mind'']], trans. Bettina G. Bergo, Stanford University Press, 1998. (in English)
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* ''L'au-delà du verset: lectures et discours talmudiques'', Paris: Minuit, 1982.
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Beyond_the_Verse_Talmudic_Readings_and_Lectures_1994.pdf|''Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures'']], trans. Gary D. Mole, Indiana University Press, 1994. (in English)
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* ''Éthique et infini: Dialogues avec Philippe Nemo'', Paris: Fayard, 1982; LGF, 1984.
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** ''Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Philippe Nemo'', trans. Richard A. Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1985. (in English)
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* ''Transcendance et intelligibilité'' Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1984.
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* ''Hors sujet'', Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1987.
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** ''Outside the Subject'', trans. Michael B. Smith, Stanford University Press, 1993. (in English)
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* ''A l'heure des nations'', Paris: Minuit, 1988.
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_In_the_Time_of_the_Nations_1994.pdf|''In the Time of Nations'']], trans. Michael B. Smith, Indiana University Press, 1994; Continuum, 2007. (in English)
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* ''De l'oblitération: Entretien avec Françoise Armengaud'', Paris: Différence, 1990; repr., 1998.
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* ''La mort et le temps'', ed. Jacques Rolland, Paris: Herne, 1991. Lectures given during the academic year 1975–76.
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* ''Entre nous: Essais sur le penser-à-l'autre'', Paris: Grasset, 1993.
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Entre_Nous_on_thinking_of_the_other_1998.pdf|''Entre nous: On Thinking-of-the-Other'']], trans. Barbara Harshav and Michael B. Smith, Columbia University Press, 2000. (in English)
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* ''Dieu, la mort et le temps'', ed. Jacques Rolland, Paris: Grasset, 1993.
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** ''God, Death, and Time'', trans. Bettina G. Bergo, pref. Jacques Rolland, Stanford University Press, 2000. (in English)
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* ''Les imprévus de l'histoire'', ed. Pierre Hayat, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1994.
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** ''Unforeseen History'', trans. Nidra Poller, intro. Richard A. Cohen, Illinois University Press, 2003. (in English)
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* ''Liberté et commandement'', ed. Pierre Hayat, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1994.
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* ''Altérité et transcendence'', Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1995.
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Alterity_and_Transcendence_1999.pdf|''Alterity and Transcendence'']], trans. Michael B. Smith, Columbia University Press, 1999. (in English)
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* ''Nouvelles lectures talmudiques'', Paris: Minuit, 1995.
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** ''New Talmudic Readings'', trans. Richard A. Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1999. (in English)
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* ''Éthique comme philosophie première'', ed. Jacques Rolland, Paris: Rivages, 1998.
  
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==Works==
 
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(in French unless noted)
 
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===Books===
 
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* ''Théorie de l'intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl'', 1930; Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1963; new edition J. Vrin, 2000.
 
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_The_Theory_of_Intuition_in_Husserls_Phenomenology_2nd_ed_1995.pdf|''Theory of Intuition in Husserl's Phenomenology'']], trans. Andre Orianne, Northwestern University Press,1973; 2nd edition, 1995 (in English).
 
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* with Heinz Erich Eisenhuth, ''Der Begriff des Irrationalen als philosophisches Problem'', 1931 (in German)
 
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* ''Martin Heidegger et l'ontologie'', 1932
 
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* ''Le Temps et l'autre'', 1947; Fata Morgana, 1979; Presses Universitaires de France, 2004.
 
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Time_and_the_Other_1987.Pdf|''Time and the Other'']], trans. Richard A. Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1987 (in English).
 
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* ''De l'existence ý l'existant'', 1947.
 
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** ''Existence and Existent'', trans. Alphonso Lingis, Duquesne University Press, 2001.
 
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* ''Difficile liberté: Essais sur le judaïsme'', Editions Albin Michel, 1963, 1967; LGF - Livre de Poche, 2003.
 
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Difficult_Freedom_Essays_on_Judaism_1997.pdf|''Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism'']], trans. Seán Hand, London: The Athlone Press, 1990; The Johns Hopkins University Press, paperbacks edition, 1997 (in English).
 
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* [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Totalit%C3%A9_et_infini_essai_sur_l_ext%C3%A9riorit%C3%A9_2000.pdf|''Totalité et infini: Essai sur l'extériorité'']], 1961; Martinus Nijhoff, 1971; Livre de Poche, 2000.
 
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Totality_and_Infinity_2nd_ed_1979.pdf|''Totality and Infinity'']], trans. Alphonso Lingis, The Hague/ Boston/ London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers & Duquesne University Press, 1969; 2nd edition, 1979; Springer, 1980 (in English) [http://chungsoolee.com/files/Totality_and_Infinity_Whole_book_Word_PDF_2012-03-14.pdf].
 
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* ''En découvrant l'existence avec Husserl et Heidegger 1949; revised edition 1967; Vrin, 2002.
 
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Discovering_Existence_with_Husserl_1998.pdf|''Discovering Existence with Husserl'']], trans. Richard A. Cohen and Michael B. Smith, Northwestern University Press, 1998 (in English).
 
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* ''Noms propres'', Paris: Fata Morgana, 1976.
 
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** ''Proper Names'', trans. Michael Smith, Stanford University Press, 1997.
 
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* [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Autrement_qu_etre_ou_au_dela_de_l_essence_1974.pdf|''Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence'']], Martinus Nijhoff & La Haye, 1974; 2nd edition, LA Haye, 1978; Paris, LGF,  Le Livre de Poche, 1990, 2004.
 
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** ''Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence'', trans. Alphonso Lingis, Duquesne University Press, 1998.
 
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** ''De otro modo que ser, o mas alla de la esencia'', Sigueme, Salamanca, 1987 (in Spanish).
 
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* [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Humanisme_de_l_autre_homme_1987.pdf|'' Humanisme de l'autre homme'']], Fata Morgana, 1972; LGF, 1987.
 
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** ''Humanism of the Other'', trans. Nidra Poller, University of Illinois Press, 2005.
 
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* ''Quatre lectures talmudiques'', 1968; Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 2005.
 
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Nine_Talmudic_Readings_1994.pdf|''Nine Talmudic Readings'']], trans. Annette Aronowicz, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990; Midland Book Editions, 1994 (in English).
 
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* ''De Dieu qui vient ý l'idée'', Paris: Vrin, 1982.
 
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Of_God_Who_Comes_to_Mind_1998.pdf|''Of God who Comes to Mind'']], trans. Bettina Bergo, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998 (in English).
 
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* ''L'au-delà du verset: Lectures et Discours Talmudiques'', Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1982.
 
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Beyond_the_Verse_Talmudic_Readings_and_Lectures_1994.pdf|''Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures'']], trans. Gary Mole, London: The Athlone Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994 (in French).
 
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* ''Du sacré au saint: Cinq nouvelles lectures talmudiques'', Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1977.
 
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* ''Ethique et infini'', Paris: Fayard, 1982; LGF, 1984
 
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** ''Ethics and Infinity'', trans. Richard A. Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1985.
 
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* ''Hors sujet'', Paris: Fata Morgana, 1987.
 
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** ''Outside the Subject'', trans. Michael Smith (editor), Stanford University Press.
 
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* ''A l'heure des nations'', Editions de Minuit, 1988.
 
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_In_the_Time_of_the_Nations_1994.pdf|''In the Time of Nations'']], trans. Michael B. Smith, The Athlone Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994; Continuum, 2007 (in English).
 
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* ''Entre nous'', Livre de Poche, 1993.
 
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* ''Entre nous: Essais sur le penser-ý-l'autre'', Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, 1991.
 
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Entre_Nous_on_thinking_of_the_other_1998.pdf|''Entre nous : on thinking-of-the-other'']], trans. Michael B. Smith and Barbara Harshav, Columbia University Press, 1998 (in English).
 
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* ''Altérité et transcendence'', Paris: Fata Morgana,1995
 
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** [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Alterity_and_Transcendence_1999.pdf|''Alterity and Transcendence'']], trans. Michael B. Smith, London: The Athlone Press, 1999; Columbia University Press, 2000 (in English).
 
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* ''Dieu, la mort et le temps'', LGF, Le Livre de poche, 1995.
 
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* ''Nouvelles lectures talmudiques'', Paris: Minuit, 1996.
 
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* ''Hors sujet'', LGF, Le Livre de poche, 1997.
 
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* ''De l'évasion'', Paris, LGF, Le Livre de poche, 1998.
 
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* ''Éthique comme philosophie première'', Rivages poche/Petite Bibliothèque, 1998.
 
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* ''L'Éthique comme philosophie première'', Paris: Rivages, 1998.
 
 
* ''Positivité et transcendance, Paris: PUF, 2000.
 
* ''Positivité et transcendance, Paris: PUF, 2000.
 
* ''Paul Celan. De l’être à l’autre'', Paris: Fata Morgana, 2003.
 
* ''Paul Celan. De l’être à l’autre'', Paris: Fata Morgana, 2003.
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* ''Entretiens avec Emmanuel Levinas, 1992–1994; suivis de Levinas entre philosophie et pensée juive'', ed. Michaël de Saint-Cheron, Paris: Livre de poche, 2006.
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* ''Eros, littérature et philosophie'', Paris, Grasset, 2013.
 
* ''Eros, littérature et philosophie'', Paris, Grasset, 2013.
  
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===Collected works===
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===Selected works===
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* [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Collected_Philosophical_Papers_1987.pdf|''Collected Philosophical Papers'']], trans. Alphonso Lingis, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987 (in English).
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* [[Media:Levinas_Emmanuel_Collected_Philosophical_Papers_1987.pdf|''Collected Philosophical Papers'']], trans. Alphonso Lingis, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987. (in English)
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* Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley, and Robert Bernasconi (eds), ''Emmanuel Levinas: basic philosophical writings'', Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
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* [[Media:Hand_Sean_The_Levinas_Reader_1989.pdf|''The Levinas Reader'']], ed. Seán Hand, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1989. (in English)
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* Claire Katz with Lara Trout (eds.), ''Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers'', 4 vols., New York: Routledge, 2005
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* ''Basic Philosophical Writings'', eds. Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi, Indiana University Press, 1996. (in English)
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* ''Les œuvres complètes'', Grasset-IMEC, vol. 1, 2009; vol. 2, 2011 (in French).
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* ''Is it Righteous to Be? Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas'', ed. Jill Robbins, Stanford University Press, 2001. (in English)
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* ''Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers'', 4 vols., eds. Claire Katz with Lara Trout, New York: Routledge, 2005. (in English)
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* ''Œuvres 1: Carnets de captivité et autres inédits'', eds. Rodolphe Calin and Catherine Chalier, Paris: Grasset et Fasquelle / IMEC éditeurs, 2009.
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* ''Œuvres 2: Parole et silence et autres conférences inédites'', eds. Rodolphe Calin and Catherine Chalier, Paris: Grasset et Fasquelle / IMEC éditeurs, 2011.
  
 
===Selected articles===
 
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* "Sur les “Ideen” de M. E. Husserl", ''Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger'', n°3-4, mars-avril, 1929, pp. 230-265.
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* "Sur les “Ideen” de M. E. Husserl", ''Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger'' 3-4 (Mar-Apr 1929), pp 230-265.
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* "Is Ontology Fundamental?" (1951), trans. Peter Atterton, In: ''Philosophy Today'', vol. 33 (Summer ‘89), pp. 121-129.
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* "Is Ontology Fundamental?" [1951], trans. Peter Atterton, ''Philosophy Today'' 33 (Summer 1989), pp 121-129. (in English)
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* "Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism" (1934), trans. Sean Hand, In: ''Critical Inquiry'', vol. 17 (Autumn 1990) pp. 62-71.
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* "Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism" [1934], trans. Sean Hand, ''Critical Inquiry'' 17 (Autumn 1990), pp 62-71. (in English)
  
 
===Bibliographies===
 
===Bibliographies===
 
* [http://www.levinas.fr/levinas/bibliographie/bibliographie.asp?titre=&type=&nombre=-1&Submit=OK&tri=Annee Base bibliographique Emmanuel Lévinas]
 
* [http://www.levinas.fr/levinas/bibliographie/bibliographie.asp?titre=&type=&nombre=-1&Submit=OK&tri=Annee Base bibliographique Emmanuel Lévinas]
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* [http://www.egs.edu/library/emmanuel-levinas/bibliography/ in English]
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* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/#Bib Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy], compiled by Bettina Bergo, 2011.
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* [http://www.mounier.es/cuadernos/Levinas.pdf compiled MARGARITA DIEZ CUESTA], May 1992 (in French & Spanish)
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* [http://www.egs.edu/library/emmanuel-levinas/bibliography/ On Egs.edu]
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* [http://www.mounier.es/cuadernos/Levinas.pdf Compiled by Margarita Diez Cuesta], 1992. (French and Spanish)
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* Roger Burggraeve, ''Emmanuel Levinas. Une bibliographie primaire et secondaire (1929-1985)'', Leuven: the Centre for Metaphysics and Philosophy of God, 1986.
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
 
* F. Laruelle (ed.), ''Textes pour Emmanuel Levinas'', Paris: J.-M. Place, 1980.
 
* F. Laruelle (ed.), ''Textes pour Emmanuel Levinas'', Paris: J.-M. Place, 1980.
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* Salomon Malka, ''Lire Levinas'', Paris: Le Cerf, 1984 (in French).
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* Salomon Malka, ''Lire Levinas'', Paris: Le Cerf, 1984.
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* Sean Hand (ed.), [[Media:Hand_Sean_The_Levinas_Reader_1989.pdf|''The Levinas Reader'']], Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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* Robert Bernasconi, David Wood (eds.), ''The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other'', London and New York: Roudedge, 1988. (in English)
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* Roger Burggraeve, ''Emmanuel Levinas. Une bibliographie primaire et secondaire (1929-1985)'', Leuven: the Centre for Metaphysics and Philosophy of God, 1986 (in French).
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* Francois Poirie, ''Emmanuel Levinas, Qui etes-vous?'', Lyon: La Manufacture, 1987.
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* Robert Bernasconi and David Wood (eds.), ''The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other'', London and New York: Roudedge, 1988.
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* R. Cohen (ed.), ''Face to Face with Levinas'', Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. (in English)
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* Francois Poirie, ''Emmanuel Levinas, Qui etes-vous?'', Lyon: La Manufacture, 1987 (in French).
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* John Llewelyn, ''Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics'', London: Routledge, 1995. (in English)
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* R. Cohen (ed.), ''Face to Face with Levinas'', Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986.
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* Jacques Derrida, [[Media:Derrida_Jacques_Adieu_a_Emmanuel_Levinas_1997.pdf|''Adieu à Emmanuel Lévinas'']], Paris: Galilée, 1997.
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* John Llewelyn, ''Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics'', London: Routledge, 1995.
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** [[Media:Derrida_Jacques_Adieu_to_Emmanuel_Levinas_1999.pdf|''Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas'']], trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Stanford University Press, 1999. (in English)
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* Jacques Derrida, [[Media:Derrida_Jacques_Adieu_a_Emmanuel_Levinas_1997.pdf|''Adieu à Emmanuel Lévinas'']], Paris: Editions Galilée, 1997 (in French).
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* Tina Chanter (ed.), ''Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas'', Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. (in English)
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** [[Media:Derrida_Jacques_Adieu_to_Emmanuel_Levinas_1999.pdf|''Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas'']], trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999 (in English).
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* Oona Ajzenstat, ''Driven Back to the Text: the Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism'', Duquesne University Press, 2001. (in English)
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* Tina Chanter (editor), ''Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas'', The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.
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* C. Fred Alford, ''Levinas, the Frankfurt School and Psychoanalysis'', Wesleyan University Press, 2002. (in English)
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* Oona Ajzenstat, ''Driven Back to the Text: the Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism'', Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2001.
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* Alexandru Mărchidan, ''Obiectivarea fenomenologiei în etică în opera lui Emmanuel Levinas'', Piteşti: Tiparg, 2011. Ph.D. Dissertation. (in Romanian).  
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* C. Fred Alford, ''Levinas, the Frankfurt School and Psychoanalysis'', Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
 
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* Alexandru Mărchidan, ''Obiectivarea fenomenologiei în etică în opera lui Emmanuel Levinas'' (PhD thesis), Piteşti: Tiparg, 2011 (in Romanian).  
 
 
* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/#SecLit more]
 
* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/#SecLit more]
  

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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.

Works

(in French unless noted)

Books

  • La théorie de l'intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl, Paris: Alcan, 1930; Paris: Vrin, 1963; new ed., J. Vrin, 2000. Dissertation.
  • with Heinz Erich Eisenhuth, Der Begriff des Irrationalen als philosophisches Problem, 1931. (in German)
  • Martin Heidegger et l'ontologie, 1932.
  • De l'évasion, 1935; new ed., notes Jacques Rolland, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1982.
    • On Escape / De l'évasion, trans. Bettina G. Bergo, Stanford University Press, 2003. (in English)
  • Quelques réflexions sur la philosophie de l'hitlérisme, 1934; ed. Miguel Abensour, Paris: Rivages, 1997.
  • De l'existence à l'existant, 1947; 2nd ed., Paris: Vrin, 1986.
    • Existence and Existents, trans. Alphonso Lingis, The Hague and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. (in English)
  • "Le temps et l'autre", in Le choix, le monde, l'existence, ed. Jean Wahl, Grenoble: Arthaud, 1947; repr. as Le temps et l'autre, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1979; Paris: PUF, 2004.
    • Time and the Other, trans. Richard A. Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1987. (in English)
  • En découvrant l'existence avec Husserl et Heidegger, 1949; rev.ed., Paris: Vrin, 1967.
  • Totalité et infini: essai sur l'extériorité, The Hague and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1961; Martinus Nijhoff, 1971; Livre de Poche, 2000.
  • Difficile liberté: Essais sur le judaïsme, Paris: Albin Michel, 1963; 1967; 3rd ed., rev., Paris: Albin Michel, 1976.
  • Quatre lectures talmudiques, Paris: Minuit, 1968; Paris: Minuit, 2005.
    • Nine Talmudic Readings, trans. Annette Aronowicz, Indiana University Press, 1990; Midland Book Editions, 1994. This translation regroups the lectures of 1968 and 1977. (in English)
  • Humanisme de l'autre homme, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1972; LGF, 1987.
    • Humanism of the Other, trans. Nidra Poller, intro. Richard A. Cohen, University of Illinois Press, 2003. (in English)
  • Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence, The Hague and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974; 2nd ed., LA Haye, 1978; Paris: LGF - Le Livre de Poche, 1990; 2004.
    • Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, trans. Alphonso Lingis, Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer, 1978. (in English)
    • De otro modo que ser, o mas alla de la esencia, Salamanca: Sigueme, 1987. (in Spanish)
  • Sur Maurice Blanchot, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1976.
  • with Xavier Tilliette and Paul Ricœur, Jean Wahl et Gabriel Marcel, Paris: Beauchesne, 1976.
  • Noms propres: Agnon, Buber, Celan, Delhomme, Derrida, Jabès, Kierkegaard, Lacroix, Laporte, Picard, Proust, Van Breda, Wahl, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1976.
    • Proper Names, trans. Michael B. Smith, Stanford University Press, 1997. (in English)
  • Du sacré au saint: Cinq nouvelles lectures talmudiques, Paris: Minuit, 1977.
  • De Dieu qui vient à l'idée, Paris: Vrin, 1982; 2nd ed., corr. & enl., Paris: Vrin, 1986.
  • L'au-delà du verset: lectures et discours talmudiques, Paris: Minuit, 1982.
  • Éthique et infini: Dialogues avec Philippe Nemo, Paris: Fayard, 1982; LGF, 1984.
    • Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Philippe Nemo, trans. Richard A. Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1985. (in English)
  • Transcendance et intelligibilité Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1984.
  • Hors sujet, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1987.
    • Outside the Subject, trans. Michael B. Smith, Stanford University Press, 1993. (in English)
  • A l'heure des nations, Paris: Minuit, 1988.
    • In the Time of Nations, trans. Michael B. Smith, Indiana University Press, 1994; Continuum, 2007. (in English)
  • De l'oblitération: Entretien avec Françoise Armengaud, Paris: Différence, 1990; repr., 1998.
  • La mort et le temps, ed. Jacques Rolland, Paris: Herne, 1991. Lectures given during the academic year 1975–76.
  • Entre nous: Essais sur le penser-à-l'autre, Paris: Grasset, 1993.
  • Dieu, la mort et le temps, ed. Jacques Rolland, Paris: Grasset, 1993.
    • God, Death, and Time, trans. Bettina G. Bergo, pref. Jacques Rolland, Stanford University Press, 2000. (in English)
  • Les imprévus de l'histoire, ed. Pierre Hayat, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1994.
    • Unforeseen History, trans. Nidra Poller, intro. Richard A. Cohen, Illinois University Press, 2003. (in English)
  • Liberté et commandement, ed. Pierre Hayat, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1994.
  • Altérité et transcendence, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1995.
  • Nouvelles lectures talmudiques, Paris: Minuit, 1995.
    • New Talmudic Readings, trans. Richard A. Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1999. (in English)
  • Éthique comme philosophie première, ed. Jacques Rolland, Paris: Rivages, 1998.
  • Positivité et transcendance, Paris: PUF, 2000.
  • Paul Celan. De l’être à l’autre, Paris: Fata Morgana, 2003.
  • Entretiens avec Emmanuel Levinas, 1992–1994; suivis de Levinas entre philosophie et pensée juive, ed. Michaël de Saint-Cheron, Paris: Livre de poche, 2006.
  • Eros, littérature et philosophie, Paris, Grasset, 2013.

Selected works

  • Collected Philosophical Papers, trans. Alphonso Lingis, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987. (in English)
  • The Levinas Reader, ed. Seán Hand, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1989. (in English)
  • Basic Philosophical Writings, eds. Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi, Indiana University Press, 1996. (in English)
  • Is it Righteous to Be? Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas, ed. Jill Robbins, Stanford University Press, 2001. (in English)
  • Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, 4 vols., eds. Claire Katz with Lara Trout, New York: Routledge, 2005. (in English)
  • Œuvres 1: Carnets de captivité et autres inédits, eds. Rodolphe Calin and Catherine Chalier, Paris: Grasset et Fasquelle / IMEC éditeurs, 2009.
  • Œuvres 2: Parole et silence et autres conférences inédites, eds. Rodolphe Calin and Catherine Chalier, Paris: Grasset et Fasquelle / IMEC éditeurs, 2011.

Selected articles

  • "Sur les “Ideen” de M. E. Husserl", Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger 3-4 (Mar-Apr 1929), pp 230-265.
  • "Is Ontology Fundamental?" [1951], trans. Peter Atterton, Philosophy Today 33 (Summer 1989), pp 121-129. (in English)
  • "Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism" [1934], trans. Sean Hand, Critical Inquiry 17 (Autumn 1990), pp 62-71. (in English)

Bibliographies

Literature

  • F. Laruelle (ed.), Textes pour Emmanuel Levinas, Paris: J.-M. Place, 1980.
  • Salomon Malka, Lire Levinas, Paris: Le Cerf, 1984.
  • Robert Bernasconi, David Wood (eds.), The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other, London and New York: Roudedge, 1988. (in English)
  • Francois Poirie, Emmanuel Levinas, Qui etes-vous?, Lyon: La Manufacture, 1987.
  • R. Cohen (ed.), Face to Face with Levinas, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. (in English)
  • John Llewelyn, Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics, London: Routledge, 1995. (in English)
  • Jacques Derrida, Adieu à Emmanuel Lévinas, Paris: Galilée, 1997.
  • Tina Chanter (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. (in English)
  • Oona Ajzenstat, Driven Back to the Text: the Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism, Duquesne University Press, 2001. (in English)
  • C. Fred Alford, Levinas, the Frankfurt School and Psychoanalysis, Wesleyan University Press, 2002. (in English)
  • Alexandru Mărchidan, Obiectivarea fenomenologiei în etică în opera lui Emmanuel Levinas, Piteşti: Tiparg, 2011. Ph.D. Dissertation. (in Romanian).
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Selected studies

  • Emanuel Levinas, La Huella del Otro, trans. Esther Cohen, Silvana Rabinovich and Manrico Montero, México: Taurus, 2000, 2001 (in Spanish).

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