PHILOSOPHER

Emmanuel Levinas

1906 - 1995

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Emmanuel Levinas (born Emanuelis Levinas ; French: [ɛmanɥɛl levinas]; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emmanuel Levinas is the 122nd most popular philosopher (up from 190th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Philosopher.

Emmanuel Levinas is a philosopher who is most famous for his work on ethics and the other.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 122 out of 1,267. Before him are Padmasambhava, Tertullian, William of Ockham, Ibn Taymiyyah, Bonaventure, and Henri de Saint-Simon. After him are Ramon Llull, Willard Van Orman Quine, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Marsilio Ficino, Chanakya, and Pyrrho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 14. Before him are Kurt Gödel, Samuel Beckett, Aristotle Onassis, Ernst Chain, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Luchino Visconti. After him are Josephine Baker, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Estée Lauder, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, and Billy Wilder. Among people deceased in 1995, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 7. Before him are Yitzhak Rabin, Siad Barre, Bob Ross, Emil Cioran, Gilles Deleuze, and Juan Manuel Fangio. After him are Adolf Butenandt, Eugene Wigner, Hannes Alfvén, Mikhail Botvinnik, Maurizio Gucci, and Michael Ende.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 3 out of 328. Before him are Józef Piłsudski (1867), and Władysław II Jagiełło (1362). After him are Vytautas (1352), Czesław Miłosz (1911), Gediminas (1275), Mindaugas (1203), Hermann Minkowski (1864), Emma Goldman (1869), Algirdas (1296), Romain Gary (1914), and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Lithuania

Among philosophers born in Lithuania, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 1. After him are Abram Deborin (1881).

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