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Levinas was born on 12 January 1906, into a middle-class Litvak family in Kaunas, ... (Existence and Existents) 1948. Le Temps et l'Autre (Time and the Other) 1949.
Emmanuel Levinas, De l’existence à l’existant (1947). Translated by Lingis as Existence and Existents (2001). Emmanuel Levinas, Totalité et infini: essai sur l’extériorité (1961). Translated by Lingis as Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (1969). Emmanuel Levinas, Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence (1974).
Levinas advances the thesis that all ethics derive from a confrontation with an other. This other, with whom we interact concretely, represents a gateway into the more abstract Otherness. The distinction between totality and infinity divides the limited world, which contains the other as a material body, from a spiritual world.
Emmanuel Levinas: January 12, 1906 – December 25, 1995 Lithuania, France Philosopher, theologian Studied with Heidegger and Husserl John Macquarrie: June 27, 1919 – May 28, 2007 United Kingdom Theologian Christian existentialist Vytautas Mačernis: June 5, 1921 – October 7, 1944 Lithuania Poet Naguib Mahfouz
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A man known as "The Truck Stop Serial Killer" was convicted Wednesday in the 2007 murder of an Indianapolis woman. Bruce Mendenhall has now been found guilty of three murders, and he remains a ...
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The existential quantifier ∃ is often used in logic to express existence.. Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing.Existence is often contrasted with essence: the essence of an entity is its essential features or qualities, which can be understood even if one does not know whether the entity exists.