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Emmanuel Levinas
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Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher
Emmanuel Levinas was a 20th-century Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher who developed influential ideas about ethics and human responsibility, particularly emphasizing our obligation to others and how encounters with other people should shape how we think and live. His work matters because it offers a major philosophical perspective on what makes actions right or wrong, grounded in the idea that recognizing our responsibility to other people is more fundamental than traditional questions about being or knowledge.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Emmanuel
- Family name
- Levinas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Lithuania
- Place of birth
- Kaunas
- Place of death
- Paris
- Child
- Michaël Levinas
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Strasbourg
- Employer
- University of Fribourg
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- Totality and Infinity
- Student of
- Martin Heidegger
- Field of work
- ethics
- Image
- Emmanuel Levinas.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1905-12-30
- date of death
- 1995-12-25
- influenced by
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- place of burial
- Cimetière de Pantin
- name in native language
- Emmanuel Lévinas
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- Commons category
- Emmanuel Levinas
- topic's main category
- Category:Emmanuel Levinas
- member of
- Academia Europaea
- ethnic group
- Ashkenazi Jews
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Emmanuel Levinas (born Emanuelis Levinas /ˈlɛvɪnɑːs/; French: [ɛmanɥɛl levinas]; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ontology.
Life and career
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