Planning a movie night with 'Absent God – Emmanuel Levinas and the Humanism of the Other' tonight? Tracking down where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to rent or buy this film can be confusing so ...

Emmanuel Levinas, a “philosopher of four cultures” who was enchanted by German thinkers before the war but emerged from the Holocaust to play a key role in Judaism’s revival in Europe, has died at age ...

Study of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas has grown steadily in the United States, Israel and elsewhere since his death a decade ago. Now it’s getting a boost on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

The opening in Kaunas of a cultural center named for a famous Jew coincided with rows over how to talk about his family’s killers. (JTA) — The inauguration of a cultural center named for a prominent ...

About the book: Ethics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question “what should I do?” has infused the history of human narrative for more than two centuries. One of the ...

Israel’s bombing and incursion into Gaza raise the question of proportionality. In addition to numerous war crimes and/or crimes against humanity, the fundamental of proportionality is being ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The public is invited to attend this weekend's inaugural meeting of the North American Levinas Society at Purdue University. The conference, Levinas and the Political, is ...

The Absent God is a documentary film about the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th century. Inspired by modern philosophy and ancient Jewish texts, Levinas ...