1906 - 1995
Emmanuel 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 872,122 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Emmanuel Levinas is the 179th most popular philosopher (down from 160th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 4th 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, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 179 out of 1,081. Before him are Karl Kautsky, Solomon ibn Gabirol, José Ortega y Gasset, Pierre Gassendi, Max Horkheimer, and Claude Adrien Helvétius. After him are Posidonius, Hippasus, Han Fei, Jakob Böhme, Muhammad Abduh, and Sextus Empiricus.
1854 - 1938
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 173
1021 - 1058
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 174
1883 - 1955
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 175
1592 - 1655
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 176
1895 - 1973
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 177
1715 - 1771
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 178
1906 - 1995
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 179
135 BC - 51 BC
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 180
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 181
280 BC - 232 BC
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 182
1575 - 1624
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 183
1849 - 1905
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 184
160 - 210
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 185
Among people born in 1906, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 20. Before him are Roberto Rossellini, Albert Hofmann, Victor Vasarely, Sergei Korolev, Maria Goeppert Mayer, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. After him are Sayyid Qutb, Ernst Ruska, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Henri Charrière, and Hermann Fegelein. Among people deceased in 1995, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 6. Before him are Yitzhak Rabin, Gilles Deleuze, Juan Manuel Fangio, Emil Cioran, and Harold Wilson. After him are Michael Ende, Eugene Wigner, Konrad Zuse, Gunnar Nordahl, Anatoly Dyatlov, and Mikhail Botvinnik.
1906 - 1977
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 14
1906 - 2008
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 15
1906 - 1997
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 16
1906 - 1966
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 17
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 18
1906 - 1975
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 19
1906 - 1995
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 20
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 21
1906 - 1988
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 22
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 23
1906 - 1947
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 24
1906 - 1973
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 25
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 26
1922 - 1995
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 1
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 2
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 3
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 4
1916 - 1995
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 5
1906 - 1995
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 6
1929 - 1995
HPI: 69.14
Rank: 7
1902 - 1995
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 8
1910 - 1995
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 9
1921 - 1995
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 10
1931 - 1995
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 11
1911 - 1995
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 12
Among people born in Lithuania, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 6 out of 287. Before him are Władysław II Jagiełło (1362), Józef Piłsudski (1867), Vytautas (1352), Mindaugas (1203), and Gediminas (1275). After him are Czesław Miłosz (1911), Romain Gary (1914), Algirdas (1296), Emma Goldman (1869), Hermann Minkowski (1864), and César Cui (1835).
1362 - 1434
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 1
1867 - 1935
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 2
1352 - 1430
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 3
1203 - 1263
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 4
1275 - 1341
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 5
1906 - 1995
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 6
1911 - 2004
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 7
1914 - 1980
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 8
1296 - 1377
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 9
1869 - 1940
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 10
1864 - 1909
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 11
1835 - 1918
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 12
Among philosophers born in Lithuania, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 1. After him are Abram Deborin (1881).