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.
Contents
Works
(in French unless noted)
Books
(in French unless noted)
- La théorie de l'intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl, Paris: Alcan, 1930; Paris: Vrin, 1963; new ed., J. Vrin, 2000. Dissertation.
- The Theory of Intuition in Husserl's Phenomenology, trans. Andre Orianne, Northwestern University Press, 1973; 2nd ed., 1995 (in English).
- 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.
- Discovering Existence with Husserl, trans. Richard A. Cohen and Michael B. Smith, Northwestern University Press, 1998. (in English)
- Totalité et infini: essai sur l'extériorité, The Hague and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1961; Martinus Nijhoff, 1971; Livre de Poche, 2000.
- Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, trans. Alphonso Lingis, Duquesne University Press, 1969; 2nd ed., 1979; Springer, 1980. (in English) [1]
- Difficile liberté: Essais sur le judaïsme, Paris: Albin Michel, 1963; 1967; 3rd ed., rev., Paris: Albin Michel, 1976.
- Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism, trans. Seán Hand, London: Athlone Press, 1990; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. (in English)
- 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, IA, ARG.
- 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.
- Of God who Comes to Mind, trans. Bettina G. Bergo, Stanford University Press, 1998. (in English)
- L'au-delà du verset: lectures et discours talmudiques, Paris: Minuit, 1982.
- Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures, trans. Gary D. Mole, Indiana University Press, 1994. (in English)
- 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.
- Entre nous: On Thinking-of-the-Other, trans. Barbara Harshav and Michael B. Smith, Columbia University Press, 2000. (in English)
- Între noi. Încercare de a-l gândi pe celălalt, trans. Ioan Petru Deac, Bucharest: All, 2000. (in Romanian)
- 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.
- Alterity and Transcendence, trans. Michael B. Smith, Columbia University Press, 1999. (in English)
- 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.
- La huella del otro, trans. Esther Cohen, Silvana Rabinovich and Manrico Montero, México: Taurus, 2000. (in Spanish)
- 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, 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
- Base bibliographique Emmanuel Lévinas
- in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, compiled by Bettina Bergo, 2011.
- on Egs.edu
- on Oeverbeek.nl
- Roger Burggraeve, Emmanuel Levinas. Une bibliographie primaire et secondaire (1929-1985), Leuven: the Centre for Metaphysics and Philosophy of God, 1986.
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)
- Margarita Diez Cuesta, Introduccion al pensamiento de Emmanuel Levinas, Madrid: Instituto Emmanuel Mounier, 1992, 38 pp. (in Spanish)
- John Llewelyn, Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics, London: Routledge, 1995. (in English)
- Jacques Derrida, Adieu à Emmanuel Lévinas, Paris: Galilée, 1997.
- Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Stanford University Press, 1999. (in English)
- 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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