Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas · Philosophy & Social Sciences
French philosopher of ethics and the priority of the Other
1906, Kaunas, Lithuania (then Russian Empire) — 1995, Paris, France
Lithuania · France
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Levinas was a French philosopher who placed ethics before ontology, arguing in works such as 'Totality and Infinity' (1961) that our responsibility for the Other is the foundation of philosophy. His thought drew deeply on his study of the Talmud, which he taught for decades. Born into a Lithuanian Jewish family, he lost close relatives in the Holocaust and became a central voice of 20th-century Jewish philosophy.
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French philosopher of ethics and the priority of the Other
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