PHILOSOPHER

Emmanuel Levinas

1906 - 1995

Emmanuel Levinas

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 635,430 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Emmanuel Levinas is the 160th most popular philosopher, the 4th most popular biography from Lithuania 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 160 out of 1,089. Before him are Mikhail Bakhtin, Max Horkheimer, Adi Shankara, Bodhidharma, Ernst Cassirer, and Friedrich Schleiermacher. After him are Marquis de Condorcet, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Kabir, Cesare Beccaria, Claude Adrien Helvétius, and Paul Ricœur.

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Mikhail Bakhtin
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HPI: 77.45
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Max Horkheimer
1895 - 1973
HPI: 77.36
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Adi Shankara
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HPI: 77.32
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Ernst Cassirer
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HPI: 77.17
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
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Emmanuel Levinas
1906 - 1995
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 160
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HPI: 77.09
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Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
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HPI: 77.07
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Kabir
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HPI: 77.01
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HPI: 77.00
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Paul Ricœur
1913 - 2005
HPI: 76.99
Rank: 166

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 20. Before him are Billy Wilder, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Ilse Koch, Roberto Rossellini, Sergei Korolev, and Josephine Baker. After him are Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Ed Gein, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Giuseppe Farina, and Soichiro Honda. Among people deceased in 1995, Emmanuel Levinas ranks 7. Before him are Yitzhak Rabin, Gilles Deleuze, Juan Manuel Fangio, Emil Cioran, Harold Wilson, and Michael Ende. After him are Konrad Zuse, Mikhail Botvinnik, Anatoly Dyatlov, Gunnar Nordahl, Dean Martin, and Eugene Wigner.

Others Born in 1906

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Billy Wilder
1906 - 2002
HPI: 78.03
Rank: 14
Faisal of Saudi Arabia
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 15
Ilse Koch
1906 - 1967
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 16
Roberto Rossellini
1906 - 1977
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 17
Sergei Korolev
1906 - 1966
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 18
Josephine Baker
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.42
Rank: 19
Emmanuel Levinas
1906 - 1995
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 20
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
1906 - 1947
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 21
Maria Goeppert Mayer
1906 - 1972
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 22
Ed Gein
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 23
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906 - 1945
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 24
Giuseppe Farina
1906 - 1966
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 25
Soichiro Honda
1906 - 1991
HPI: 75.45
Rank: 26