Gadamer, Levinas, and the Hermeneutic Ontology of Ethics by Christopher King

“…Much debate has been held over the question of whether Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutic approach to ethics and the other can do justice to the alterity of the other, as exemplified in Emmanuel Levinas’s approach to ethics as first philosophy. …”
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Från litteraturförståelse till literacy by Gustav Borsgård, Maria Jönsson

“…By turning to Gert Biesta and Emmanuel Lévinas, we argue that there is an educational value in acknowledging and appreciating what lies beyond the scope of the student’s immediate understanding. …”
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Mask and Otherness between Recognition and Concealment: Notes on the Self and the You by Paolo Ponzio

“…From Martin Heidegger to Emmanuel Lévinas, from Hannah Arendt to Paul Ricouer: the continental tradition of twentieth-century thought has built its narrative around the themes of otherness, crossing the theme of the mask that fulfills its function precisely in the dialectic identity/otherness (idem/alter to put it in technical terms). …”
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Qualifying Religious Truth and Ecclesial Unity: The Soteriological Significance of Difference by Ryan K. McAleer

“…The trans-phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas has helped expose the totalising dynamic that has marked much of Western philosophy. …”
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Can a Robot Be a Person? De-Facing Personhood and Finding It Again with Lévinas by Roberto Dell'Oro

“…The paper addresses the question in dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas. It begins with something like an archeological reconstruction of personhood in modernity, in order to locate the context out of which the question posed, “can a robot be a person?” …”
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Wasting Time with the World’s Poor: Theological and Scriptural Foundations for Paul Farmer’s Praxis of Accompaniment by Brian Volck

“…Farmer’s praxis is examined through the author’s own experience as a physician, then through the words of Paul Farmer, David Hilfiker, Gustavo Gutierrez, Roberto Goizueta, and Emmanuel Levinas, and finally through relevant passages from scripture. …”
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À travers la vulnérabilité et l’effort. De la personne que nous deviendrons by Vinicio Busacchi

“…The author starts from a confrontation between Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricœur’s philosophies of the human being, deepening the various stages in order to reinterpret the initial idea that we are born an individual, whereas becoming a person is a process that goes through an interrelational and cultural dialectis. …”
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Not to be European would not be 'to be European still': Undoing Eurocentrism in Levinas and others by Avram Alpert

“…In this essay I return to the difficult relation between the ethics and politics of Emmanuel Levinas through his critique of "paganism" and "primitivism." …”
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LÉVINAS, Emmanuel. Humanismo do outro homem. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1993. 131p. by Jose Mauricio de Carvalho

“…A tradução deste livro de Emmanuel Lévinas nasceu de seminário sobre o autor realizado no programa de mestrado da PUCRS. …”
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An Ethics of Recognition: Redressing the Good and the Right by Sebastian Purcell

“…The essay closes, finally, with a reflection on how this method might be developed one step further to include an insight by Emmanuel Levinas on the look of the Other, and so make for an ethics of recognition.…”
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Maurice Blanchot and the Problem of Time: an analysis of the novel Thomas, L'obscur by Samira Rashidpour Nessari

“…An elaboration on this requires tracing the idea back to the definitions and discussions found among his endless dialogues with the other contemporary writers and thinkers (especially with his famous friend Emmanuel Levinas).…”
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The School Community’s Role in Educating for Responsibility for Inclusion by Alina M. Zammit, Raymond Zammit

“…It draws on the thoughts of Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt and Paolo Freire, all of whom were greatly influenced by their religious tradition. …”
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Levinas y las Ciencias Sociales: fundamentos epistémicos desde la alteridad. by Luis Guillermo Jaramillo Echeverri, Juan Carlos Aguirre García

“…El artículo expone algunas de las tesis fundamentales del filósofo lituano-francés Emmanuel Levinas, especialmente, las que sustentan su filosofía de la alteridad, con el fin de poner en discusión la posibilidad de asumirlas como fundamentos epistemológicos de las Ciencias Sociales. …”
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Philosophies of interreligious dialogue: Practice in search of theory by Oddbjørn Leirvik

“…In this article, I discuss how insights from Martin Buber’s and Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophies of dialogue have enlightened my own experience of inter-faith dialogue in Norway. …”
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Além do ocidente, além do estado e muito além da moral: por uma política eticamente responsável em relação à diferença - o caso Ruandês Beyond the west, beyond the state, and much... by Ana Cristina Araújo Alves

“…A ênfase recai sobre a avaliação da responsabilidade ética da organização, à luz da rearticulação radical dos conceitos de ética, responsabilidade e subjetividade proposta por Emmanuel Levinas. Buscam-se as implicações dessa decisão em termos das conseqüências que ela permitiu - a saber, o genocídio ruandês, o prolongamento da violência possibilitado pela Operação Turquesa e a reorganização do movimento genocida nos campos de refugiados. …”
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Fatigue, Indolence And The There Is, Or, The Temporal Logic Of Collage In Donald Barthelme’s Snow White by Zuzanna Ładyga

“…The essay examines Donald Barthelme’s Snow White’s from the perspective of the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Drawing on a reciprocity between Barthelme’s collage principle and Levinas’s notion of the there is, the paper applies the concept in the analysis of Snow White’s referential and affect construction strategies. …”
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STREETWALKING BEYOND THE STOA: DIOGENES THE CYNIC, MARÍA LUGONES, AND A TENTATIVE COSMOPOLITANISM by ERIK BORMANIS

“…I consider passages from Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers to clarify the relationship of homelessness to cosmopolitanism, and draw upon authors such as Emmanuel Levinas, María Lugones, and José Medina in order to demonstrate the fruitfulness of a reconsidered cosmopolitanism in our contemporary context. …”
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Mobile Fences: J.M. Coetzee’s <i>Waiting for the Barbarians</i> by Eleonora Pizzinat

“…Namely, in this book every real or metaphoric fence is called into question: the distinction between the duality of “us and them” is actually determined by the Empire’s walls which separate the inside from the outside in an arbitrary way; the magistrate (with the empathy he feels for the barbarian girl) is inevitably caught in a double bind; and, according to Emmanuel Lévinas’ philosophy, the desire to understand otherness reveals its predatory intentions from a post-colonial point of view. …”
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Levinasian Ethics and Animal Rights by Jonathan Crowe

“…This article explores the above question through the prism of Emmanuel Levinas’ theory of ethics. I begin by examining the ambiguous position of non-human animals in Levinas’ writings. …”
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Apocalyptic Phenomenology: The Culmination of the Phenomenological Movement by Balázs M. Mezei

“…In this context, I offer an interpretation of the phenomenologies of Emmanuel Lévinas, Michel Henry, and Jean-Luc Marion. I argue that the notion of <i>nouveauté novatrice</i> of Miklos Vetö is a phenomenologically inspired insight into the nature of the essence of phenomenology. …”
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