Emmanuel Levinas: Horizons on the Face of the ‘Other’
Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) was a French Jewish philosopher born in Kaunas, Lithuania. He studied philosophy in Strasburg, France. In 1940 he was captured by the Nazis and…
Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) was a French Jewish philosopher born in Kaunas, Lithuania. He studied philosophy in Strasburg, France. In 1940 he was captured by the Nazis and…
To sin is to make a wrong choice. It’s not a mistake. The enactor of a choice that is merely mistaken hasn’t chosen to make the mistake. …
Some years ago, I went to a conference on Emmanuel Levinas at Loyola University in Chicago.* I had just discovered Levinas, found him a dramatically original and…
Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, and Arendt. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Thinking in Public examines what constitutes the public intellectual and…
The Face of God. Roger Scruton. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. The Face of God, the most recent book by the prolific English philosopher Roger Scruton,…
Popper? A Troublesome Pebble . . . Acknowledging the importance of Henri Bergson’s thought for him, Eric Voegelin wrote: "history of mankind . . . is an…