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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emmanuel Levinas has received more than 945,868 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Emmanuel Levinas is the 190th most popular philosopher (down from 179th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 6th 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 190 out of 1,267. Before him are Apollonius of Tyana, Moses Mendelssohn, Bernard Bolzano, Ibn Tufail, Nicolas Malebranche, and Jakob Böhme. After him are Pierre Gassendi, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Baltasar Gracián, Slavoj Žižek, Diotima of Mantinea, and Solomon ibn Gabirol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 25. Before him are Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Billy Wilder, Henri Charrière, Hans Bethe, Roberto Rossellini, and Ernst Ruska. After him are Ilse Koch, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Soichiro Honda, Ed Gein, Hermann Fegelein, and Alexey Stakhanov. Among people deceased in 1995, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 8. Before him are Emil Cioran, Gilles Deleuze, Juan Manuel Fangio, Eugene Wigner, Michael Ende, and Mikhail Botvinnik. After him are Adolf Butenandt, Gunnar Nordahl, Konrad Zuse, Dean Martin, Harold Wilson, and Anatoly Dyatlov.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 7 out of 328. Before him are Józef Piłsudski (1867), Władysław II Jagiełło (1362), Vytautas (1352), Gediminas (1275), Czesław Miłosz (1911), and Mindaugas (1203). After him are Hermann Minkowski (1864), Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Emma Goldman (1869), Algirdas (1296), Pyotr Wrangel (1878), and Kęstutis (1297).

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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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