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20th century · 1906–1995

Who influenced Emmanuel Levinas?

Influences

Ethics as first philosophy: the face of the other obliges before thought begins.

Emmanuel Levinas was influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Emmanuel Levinas?

Emmanuel Levinas was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish origin who worked in Jewish philosophy, existentialism and phenomenology. His central question was how ethics relates to metaphysics and ontology.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Emmanuel Levinas?

2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Emmanuel Levinas

The longest documented line of influence ending at Emmanuel Levinas runs 26 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling
  23. Georg W. F. Hegel
  24. Max Stirner
  25. Friedrich Nietzsche
  26. Martin Heidegger
  27. Emmanuel Levinas

Two steps away from Emmanuel Levinas

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Emmanuel Levinas

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Emmanuel Levinas, with no direct line between them.

Emmanuel Levinas by the numbers

Direct influences
2
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
110
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
49 — #50 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Rare

Questions about Emmanuel Levinas

Who influenced Emmanuel Levinas?
Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.
Who did Emmanuel Levinas influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Emmanuel Levinas.
When did Emmanuel Levinas live?
1906–1995. The map files Emmanuel Levinas under the 20th century.
How rare is the Emmanuel Levinas card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Emmanuel Levinas in 49 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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