Emmanuel Levinas
French philosopher
Emmanuel Levinas was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ontology. Wikipedia
Born: January 12, 1906, Kaunas, Lithuania
Died: December 25, 1995 (age 89 years), Clichy, France
Influenced by: Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Immanuel Kant, and more
Parents: Jehiel Levyne and Déborah Gurvic
Children: Michaël Levinas
Education: University of Freiburg (no degree); University of Strasbourg (Dr, 1929); University of Paris (DrE, 1961)
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