The Oxford Handbook of Levinas

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) emerged as an influential philosophical voice in the final decades of the twentieth century, and his reputation has continued to flourish and increase in our own day. The essays in the present volume aim to clarify central themes of his work, from the primacy of ethics to his interest in time and history and especially his conception of the role of the face-to-face encounter and interpersonal responsibility. They also deal with a host of ways in which his work has been appropriated and applied and the central figures who influenced him and to whom he responded.