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Emmanuel Levinas

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French-Lithuanian philosopher, one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. His work (Totality and Infinity, Otherwise than Being) places ethics and responsibility toward the other at the foundation of philosophy. His Talmudic Readings renew the dialogue between Western philosophy and Jewish thought.

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Sources & resources

« Levinas, Emmanuel », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
R. Burggraeve, From Self-Development to Solidarity: An Ethical Reading of Human Desire in its Socio-Political Relevance According to Emmanuel Levinas (1985)
R. Bernasconi and S. Critchley (eds.), Re-Reading Levinas (1991)
R. Bernasconi and D. Wood (eds.), The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other (1988)
D. Banon, La Lecture infinie: Les Voies de l'interprétation midrachique (1987)
C. Chalier, Lévinas: L'Utopie de l'humain (2002)
R.A. Cohen (ed.), Face to Face with Levinas (1986)
D. Cohen-Lévinas and S. Trigano (eds.), Emmanuel Lévinas
F. Ciaramelli, Transcendance et éthique: essai sur Levinas (1989)
E. Feron, De l'idée de la transcendance à la question du (1992)
S. Critchley, The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (1992)
L'Écriture et la difference (1980)
C. Davis, Levinas. An Introduction (1996)
R. Gibbs, Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas (1992)
J. Greisch and J. Rolland (eds.), Emmanuel Lévinas: L'Éthique comme philosophie première (1993)
J. Halpérin and N. Hansson, Colloque des intellectuels juifs. Difficile justice. Dans la trace d'Emmanuel Lévinas. Actes du xxxvie Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française (1998)
A. Finkelkraut, La Sagesse de l'amour (1984)
Z. Levy, The Other and Responsibility: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
J. Llewelyn, Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics (1995)
S. Handelman, Fragments of Redemption: Jewish Thought and Literary Theory in Benjamin, Scholem, and Levinas (1991)
G.D. Mole, Lévinas, Blanchot, Jabès. Figures of Estrangement (1997)
M.A. Ouaknin, Méditations érotiques, Essai sur Emmanuel Lévinas (1991)
Iyyun (2005)
S. Malka, Lire Lévinas (2002)
S. Petrosino and J.Rolland, La Vérite nomade: Introduction à Emmanuel Lévinas (1984)
F. Poirié, Emmanuel Lévinas: Qui êtes-vous (1987)
T. Wright, The Twilight of Jewish Philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas' Ethical Hermeneutics (1999)
A. Peperzak (ed.), Ethics as First Philosophy (1995)
Emmanuel Lévinas: Une bibliographie primaire et secondaire (1929 (1990)
E. Wyschogrod, Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics (1974)