Volume 43, Number 5 · March 21, 1996
The Philosopher of Selfless Love
By Denis Donoghue
Emmanuel Levinas
by Marie-Anne Lescourret
Paris: Flammarion, 414 pp., FF 150
In the Time of the Nations
by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Michael B. Smith
Indiana University Press, 197 pp., $29.95
Outside the Subject
by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Michael B. Smith
Stanford University Press, 201 pp., $32.50, $12.95 (paper)
Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures
by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Gary D. Mole
Indiana University Press, 221 pp., $27.95
More than a dozen books by or about the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, who died at eighty-nine in December, have recently appeared in English translation. Why do so many people these days, especially literary theorists, seem to be reading the works of this once-obscure Talmudic scholar?
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