Emmanuel Levinas

Internationally renowned as one of the great French philosophers of the twentieth century, the late Emmanuel Levinas remains a pivotal figure across the humanistic disciplines for his insistence—against the grain of Western philosophical tradition—on the primacy of ethics in philosophical investigation. This first English translation of a series of twelve essays known as Alterity and Transcendence offers a unique glimpse...

Entre Nous is a major collection of essays representing the culmination of Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy. Bringing together his most important work in a single volume, the book reveals the development of his thought over nearly forty years of committed inquiry. Here, he engages with issues of suffering, love, religion, culture, justice, human rights, and legal theory, and each issue is...