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Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas 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.
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culture · Lithuanian-French philosopher (1906–1995) · philosopher · university teacher · ethicist · writer · also Emmanuel Levinas, Emmanuel Lévinas, Emmanuelis Levinas, Levinas
Born 12 January 1906 · Died 25 December 1995 · Q153034
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2023· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
The Jerusalem Post Blogs: Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas is honored in a Lithuania still grappling with the Nazi era
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2012· 1 entry
jagranjosh.com: 20th Century Philosopher: Emmanuel Levinas
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2006· 1 entry
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Emmanuel Levinas - putting ethics first
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1995· 1 entry
Died 1995-12-25.
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Scriptures & Spiritualities Award (1992).
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix de philosophie (1990).
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Balzan Prize (1989).
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Was awarded the Balzan Prize for Philosophy
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Karl Jaspers Prize (1983).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctor of Leiden University (1975).
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1961· 1 entry
At the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris in 1967, and at the Sorbonne in 1973, from which he retired in 1979
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1957· 1 entry
At the International Meeting at the monastery of Toumliline, a conference focused on contemporary challenges and interfaith dialogue
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1940· 1 entry
His military unit was surrounded and forced to surrender
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1931· 1 entry
Husserl's Cartesian Meditations (with the help of Gabrielle Peiffer and with advice from Alexandre Koyré) and by drawing on their ideas in his own philosophy, in works such as La théorie de l'intuition dans la phénoménol
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1929· 1 entry
Was awarded his doctorate (Doctorat d'université degree) by the University of Strasbourg for his thesis on the meaning of intuition in the philosophy of Husserl, published in 1930
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1928· 1 entry
Went to the University of Freiburg for two semesters to study phenomenology under Edmund Husserl
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1923· 1 entry
And his lifelong friendship with the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot
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1920· 1 entry
His family returned to the Republic of Lithuania
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1916· 1 entry
Where they stayed during the Russian revolutions of February and October 1917
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-01-12.
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