The Obi-Wan Kenobi of 20th-century Jewish philosophy, Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, has grown in fame and stature since his death in 1995. Acclaimed for his philosophy of the ...

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.

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 ...

Sovereignty and hospitality, dignity and the limits of forgiveness, vulnerability and The Other - The topics of the conference “Levinas and the real: Politics, Community, Religion” are ...

The Childhood Cancer Data Initiative: Using the Power of Data to Learn From and Improve Outcomes for Every Child and Young Adult With Pediatric Cancer The patient was a 65-year-old woman, matter of ...

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 ...

God's humility is such that he has placed within human faculties the power to enact justice and because God desires justice, he trusts fragile prayers to hold together the fabric of the world's hopes.

Although Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) has long been considered one of the most influential philosophers in Europe, it is only over the past 20 years or so that his work has been taken up in North ...

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 ...