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For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like tho...

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Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence....

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Existence and Existents

To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he over...

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Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority

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Emmanuel Levinas

Philosopher

Born: 1906-01-12

Died: 1995-12-25

Emmanuel Levinas (French pronunciation: [leviˈna, leviˈnas]; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher and Talmudic commentator of Lithuanian Jewish origin.More