Emmanuel Levinas was born in 1906 in Kaunas to Jewish family. He was raised in intellectual environment, which encouraged him to study philosophy in France. Later, in Freiburg he studied following Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology. Martin Heidegger influenced his first works to great extent. After defending his PhD, he started teaching Jewish kids in one of the Paris schools, later E. Levinas became a principle of the school. He gave lectures in Poitiers, Paris (in Nanterre), Sorbonne, Freiburg universities. E. Levinas was acknowledged intellectual and thinker in French society, who did much influence for young philosophers one of whom was Jacques Derrida.
This volume is a collection of articles prepared on the basis of papers given at the international conference “Emmanuel Levinas: A Radical Thinker in the Time of Crisis” (Vilnius University, Lithuania, October, 2015). It brought together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds involving philosophers, historians and specialists of cultural and religious studies to rediscover Levinas as a radical thinker in the time of crisis. The articles cover a wide range of Levinas’s philosophy topics, with particular focus on their link to the challenges of the contemporary world.
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