Cultural Reader

Emmanuel Levinas was a French philosopher and theologian.  Levinas was born in Lithuania in 1906 and immigrated to France as a young man. He...

Phenomenology is a philosophical movement that originated in the early 20th century and focuses on the study of consciousness and the object...

Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas have as much agreement as they do discord. One of these point of common ground with different stances ...

Alterity and Otherness are concepts used in various ways by different branches of philosophy. In phenomenology, alterity and otherness serve...

For hundreds of years, at leas since Descartes' "cogito", philosophy has been preoccupied with the question of the "I...

Jewish existentialism is a category of work by Jewish authors dealing with existentialist themes and concepts (e.g. debate about the ex...