Emmanuel levinas philosophy summary

  • Emmanuel levinas philosophy summary

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    Emmanuel levinas philosophy summary

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    • Emmanuel Levinas

    Lithuanian-French philosopher (–)

    Emmanuel Levinas[3][4] (born Emanuelis Levinas; ; French:[ɛmanɥɛllevinas];[5] 12 January – 25 December ) 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

    Levinas was born on 12 January , into a middle-classLitvak family in Kaunas, in present-day Lithuania, then Kovno district, at the Western edge of the Russian Empire. Because of the disruptions of World War I, the family moved to Kharkiv in Ukraine in , where they stayed during the Russian revolutions of February and October In , his family returned to the Republic of Lithuania.

    Levinas's early education was in secular, Russian-language schools in Kaunas and Kharkiv.[6] Upon his family's return to the Republic of Lithuania, Levinas spent two year