# Emmanuel Levinas

> A philosopher who flipped the script: instead of asking what things are, he asked what we owe each other — and made ethics the ground floor of existence, not an add-on.

*Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1906-01-12
- **Died:** 1995-12-25
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born Emanuelis Levinas in Lithuania on 12 January 1906, he came of age in a century that would test every premise about human obligation. He worked across Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, but his through-line was singular: the insistence that ethics precedes ontology, that the face of another person makes a claim before any metaphysics can. That reversal — relationship before being — became his signature move. He died in France on 25 December 1995, having redrawn the map.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 57.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.2 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.6 / 100
- **Now attention:** 9.1 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5582770/ (@nm5582770)

## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Philosophy, #Literature, #France, #Europe, #20th Century

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153034)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Levinas)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Emmanuel%20Levinas)
- [إيمانويل ليفيناس](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3)
- [ايمانويل ليفيناس](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3)
- [Еманюел Левинас](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8E%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81)
- [Emmanuel Levinas](https://btm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Levinas)
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- [Εμανυέλ Λεβινάς](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%85%CE%AD%CE%BB_%CE%9B%CE%B5%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%AC%CF%82)
- [Emmanuel Levinas](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Levinas)
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- [Emmanuel Lévinas](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_L%C3%A9vinas)
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