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Emmanuel Levinas
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Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher
OverviewAI-generated
Emmanuel Levinas was a French male author. He was born on 12 January 1906 and died on 25 December 1995. His literary output includes 231 works, with notable titles such as *Miz︠h︡ namy*, *En découvrant l'existence avec Husserl et Heidegger*, *Etika a nekonečno*, *La trace de l'autre*, and *Dialog*.
Levinas is associated with specific philosophical statements, including the assertion that atheism is worth more than the piety bestowed on mythical gods. He also noted that fear for the other man's death is distinct from an individual's taking fright.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 12 January 1906
- Died
- 25 December 1995
- Works
- 231
Top works
- Miz︠h︡ namy
- En découvrant l'existence avec Husserl et Heidegger
- Etika a nekonečno
- La trace de l'autre
- Dialog
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1906-01-12
- Active to
- 1995-12-25
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 158
- Total plays
- 234
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- APE: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R language
· 2004 · cited 10,960x
- World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour
· 2020 · cited 9,613x
- ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R
· 2018 · cited 8,804x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 8,016x
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Quotes
- “If every pure character in the Old Testament announces the Messiah, if every unworthy person is his torturer and every woman his Mother, does not the Book of Books lose all life with this obsessive theme?”
- “To ignore the true God is in fact only half an evil; atheism is worth more than the piety bestowed on mythical gods.”
- “The moral consciousness can sustain the mocking gaze of the political man only if the certitude of peace dominates the evidence of war. Such a certitude is not obtained by a simple play of antitheses. The peace of empires issued from war rests on war. It does not restore to the alienated beings their lost identity. For that a primordial and original relation with being is needed.”
- “The comprehension of God taken as a participation in his sacred life, an allegedly direct comprehension, is impossible, because participation is a denial of the divine, and because nothing is more direct than the face to face, which is straightforwardness itself.”
- “The transition of the subject-object relation to that of the I-Thou implies a passage of consciousness to a new sphere of existence, viz, the interval, betweenness or Zwischen; and this is a passage from thought to Umfassung.”
- “Fear for the Other, fear for the other man's death is my fear, but is in no way an individual's taking fright.”
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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
Show 11 more facts
- 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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