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There are philosophers whose path of thought can be described without taking account of their path of life. Edmund Husserl is the obvious case to mention. His career would have had to be characterized as typical of the German scholar and university professor unless the events of World War I and of the Nazi takeover had added tragic accents to his life. However, the decisive turns in his philosophical development took place rather independently of these historical events. In the case of Levinas things are completely different. His life is not only “entangled in stories” [using a title by Wilhelm Schapp] as is that of every human life, it is entangled in history itself, into the history of Europe in the twentieth century obsessed by passions and so rich in atrocious catastrophes. And Levinas’s path of thought cannot be understood if one completely disregards this circumstance.
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Major Works
La théorie de l’intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl (1930); English translation by André Orianne (1973).
De Invasion (1935).
De l’existence à l’existant (1947a); English translation by Alphonso Lingis (1978).
Le temps et l’autre (1947b); in Wahl J. (editor): “Le choix, le monde, l’existence.”
En découvrant l’existence avec Husserl et Heidegger (1949; 2nd edition 1967; much enlarged).
Totalité et infini. Essai sur l’extériorité (1961); English translation by Alphonso Lingis (1969).
La trace de l’autre (1963a).
Martin Buber und die Erkenntnistheorie (1963b).
Difficile liberté (1963c; 2nd revised edition 1976a).
Énigme et phénomène (1965).
La substitution (1968a).
Un Dieu nomme? (1968b).
Vérité de dévoilement et vérité de témoignage (1972a).
Humanisme de l’autre homme (1972b).
Autrement qu’être ou au delà de l’essence (1973). English translation by Alphonso Lingis (1980). Dieu et la philosophie (1975).
Noms propres (1976b).
Questions et réponses (1977; quoted in the secondary literature before 1977 under the title: “Rapport de la conversation de M. le Professeur Dr, Emmanuel Levinas à Leyde le 20 mai 1975”).
Secondary Literature: Books and Dissertations
MARTOM, G., Il desiderio dell’Altro nelpensiero di Emmanuel Levinas. Dissertation, Louvain, 1967.
MCCOLIESTER, C.H., Emmanuel Levinas and Modern Jewish Thought. Dissertation, Louvain, 1968.
ALVAREZ, O. G., Le sens de l’idée de création dans un monde sans Dieu — La réponse d’Emmanuel Levinas. Dissertation, Louvain, 1969.
WYSCHOGROD, E., Emmanuel Levinas — The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics. The Hague, 1974.
PEPERZAK, A., Het menselijk gelaat, 3rd ed., Bilthoven, 1975. (Dutch translation of some important essays with introduction and commentary. Complete and exact bibliography of Levinas’s writings until 1975.)
TREZIAK, H., Die konkrete Intentionalitüt der Exteriorität. Untersuchungen zur Apriori-Struktur der Intersubjektivität nach E. Levinas. Dissertation, Munich, 1975.
BOUKAERT, L., Emmanuel Levinas. Een filosefie van het gelaat. Nijmegen-Brugge, 1976.
BOER, TH. DE, Tussen filoso fie en prof eue. De wijsbegeerte van Emmanuel Levinas.
BAARN, 1976. (In this a bibliography of the secondary literature until 1975.)
STRASSER, S., Jenseits von Sein und Zeit. Eine Einführung in Emmanuel Levinas’ Philosophie. The Hague, 1978. (In this a continuation of Peperzak’s Bibliography until 1977.)
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Strasser, S. (1994). Emmanuel Levinas (born 1906): Phenomenological Philosophy. In: The Phenomenological Movement. Phaenomenologica, vol 5/6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7491-3_15
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