Emmanuel Lévinas

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.