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Emmanuel Lévinas

Emmanuel Lévinas

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
57
Citations
28738
World Ranking
1707
National Ranking
20

Emmanuel Lévinas publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emmanuel Lévinas sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 213 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Emmanuel Lévinas D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emmanuel Lévinas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - International Balzan Prize

Overview

Emmanuel Lévinas was affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research spanned multiple disciplines with a focus on social sciences and arts and humanities, producing a total of 11 publications in each of these main fields.

Their scholarly work concentrated predominantly on philosophy, sociology and political science, demography, experimental and cognitive psychology, and political science and international relations. The primary fields of study included:

  • Philosophy
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Demography
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Political Science and International Relations

Main topics explored in Lévinas' work covered a range of subjects, particularly focusing on philosophy, ethics, and existentialism, as well as Jewish and Middle Eastern studies. The topics addressed were:

  • Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
  • Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Jewish Identity and Society
  • Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
  • Islamic Studies and History
  • Education and Islamic Studies
  • Religion and Society Interactions

Lévinas contributed to a variety of peer-reviewed publications. Frequent venues for their work included:

  • Levinas Studies (3 publications)
  • Verlag Karl Alber eBooks (1 publication)
  • REFLEXE (1 publication)
  • Aitías Revista de Estudios Filosóficos del Centro de Estudios Humanísticos de la UANL (1 publication)
  • Philosophy Today (1 publication)

Notable recent papers by Lévinas included:

  • "The Spiritual Essence of Antisemitism (according to Jacques Maritain)", 2021, Levinas Studies
  • We Lack a Culture: Reflections on Hebrew Education, 2020, Levinas Studies
  • Fenomenologie smrti (přel. S. Chvojková - O. Kvapil), 2021, REFLEXE

Their collaborative work was marked by repeated partnerships with certain coauthors, most notably Bernhard Casper, with whom they coauthored 18 papers. Other frequent collaborators included Michael Portal, Ed Media, Samuel Hent De Vries, and Marie-Louise Mallet.

Lévinas also published several books with different publishers, contributing to the academic discourse through longer-form works. These included:

  • What is Islamic Studies?, 2022, Edinburgh University Press
  • Trojka s filozofske: spisi o Vebru, Bartolu in Jugu, 2020, Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts eBooks
  • Dialog, 2021, Verlag Karl Alber

Emmanuel Lévinas received the International Balzan Prize in 1989. They were deceased at the time of this profile.

Best Publications

  • Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority

    Emmanuel Lévinas

  • Ethics and infinity

    Emmanuel Lévinas;Philippe Nemo

  • Otherwise than being, or, Beyond essence

    Emmanuel Levinas

  • Time and the other and additional essays

    Emmanuel Lévinas;Richard A. Cohen

  • Totality and Infinity

    Emmanuel Levinas

  • Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism

    Emmanuel Lévinas

  • Time and the Other

    C. S. Schreiner;Emmanuel Levinas;Richard Cohen

  • Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence

    Emmanuel Lévinas

  • Entre nous : on thinking-of-the-other

    Emmanuel Lévinas;Michael B. Smith;Barbara Harshav

  • Basic Philosophical Writings

    Emmanuel Lévinas;Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak;Simon Critchley;Robert Bernasconi

  • Collected Philosophical Papers

    Emmanuel Levinas

  • Totalité et infini : essai sur l'extériorité

    Emmanuel Lévinas

  • Alterity and Transcendence

    Emmanuel Lévinas;Michael B. Smith

  • Totalidad e infinito : ensayo sobre la exterioridad

    Emmanuel Lévinas;Miguel García-Baró

  • Humanism of the Other

    Emmanuel Lévinas;Richard A. Cohen

  • Totalité et infini

    Emmanuel Levinas

  • Existence and Existents

    Emmanuel Lévinas

  • Nine Talmudic Readings

    Emmanuel Levinas

  • Humanisme de l'autre homme

    Emmanuel Lévinas

  • Discovering existence with Husserl

    Emmanuel Lévinas;Richard A. Cohen;Michael B. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Kearney
Richard Kearney Boston College
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl Loyola University Chicago

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