Emmanuel Levinas
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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.
Contents
Works
(in French unless noted otherwise)
Books
- 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. (English)
- with Heinz Erich Eisenhuth, Der Begriff des Irrationalen als philosophisches Problem, 1931. (German)
- Martin Heidegger et l'ontologie, 1932.
- De l'évasion, 1935; new ed., notes Jacques Rolland, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1982, ARG.
- On Escape / De l'évasion, trans. Bettina G. Bergo, Stanford University Press, 2003. (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; 2003, ARG.
- Existence and Existents, trans. Alphonso Lingis, The Hague and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. (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. (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. (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,PDF (English)
- 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. (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. (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.(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, ARG.
- Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, trans. Alphonso Lingis, Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer, 1978. (English)
- De otro modo que ser, o mas alla de la esencia, Salamanca: Sigueme, 1987. (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, 1996, IA. (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, ARG.
- Of God who Comes to Mind, trans. Bettina G. Bergo, Stanford University Press, 1998. (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, ARG. (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. (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. (English)
- A l'heure des nations, Paris: Minuit, 1988.
- In the Time of Nations, trans. Michael B. Smith, Indiana University Press, 1994; Continuum, 2007. (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. (English)
- Între noi. Încercare de a-l gândi pe celălalt, trans. Ioan Petru Deac, Bucharest: All, 2000. (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. (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. (English)
- Liberté et commandement, ed. Pierre Hayat, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1994.
- Altérité et transcendence, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1995, ARG.
- Alterity and Transcendence, trans. Michael B. Smith, Columbia University Press, 1999, ARG. (English)
- Nouvelles lectures talmudiques, Paris: Minuit, 1995.
- New Talmudic Readings, trans. Richard A. Cohen, Duquesne University Press, 1999. (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. (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. (English)
- The Levinas Reader, ed. Seán Hand, Oxford: Blackwell, 1989. (English)
- Basic Philosophical Writings, eds. Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi, Indiana University Press, 1996. (English)
- Is it Righteous to Be? Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas, ed. Jill Robbins, Stanford University Press, 2001. (English)
- Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, 4 vols., eds. Claire Katz with Lara Trout, New York: Routledge, 2005. (English)
Collected works
- Œuvres 1: Carnets de captivité et autres inédits, eds. Rodolphe Calin and Catherine Chalier, Paris: Grasset et Fasquelle / IMEC éditeurs, 2009, ARG.
- Œuvres 2: Parole et silence et autres conférences inédites, eds. Rodolphe Calin and Catherine Chalier, Paris: Grasset et Fasquelle / IMEC éditeurs, 2011, ARG.
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. (English)
- "Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism" [1934], trans. Sean Hand, Critical Inquiry 17 (Autumn 1990), pp 62-71. (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. (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. (English)
- Sean Hand (ed.), The Levinas Reader, Oxford:Basil Blackwell, 1989, ARG. (English)
- Margarita Diez Cuesta, Introduccion al pensamiento de Emmanuel Levinas, Madrid: Instituto Emmanuel Mounier, 1992, 38 pp., PDF. (Spanish)
- John Llewelyn, Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics, London: Routledge, 1995. (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. (English)
- Tina Chanter (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. (English)
- Oona Ajzenstat, Driven Back to the Text: the Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism, Duquesne University Press, 2001. (English)
- C. Fred Alford, Levinas, the Frankfurt School and Psychoanalysis, Wesleyan University Press, 2002. (English)
- Alexandru Mărchidan, Obiectivarea fenomenologiei în etică în opera lui Emmanuel Levinas, Piteşti: Tiparg, 2011. Ph.D. Dissertation. (Romanian)