North American Levinas Society

Resources by Levinas and others

Archives of the NALS

• North American Levinas Society 2007 CFP
• North American Levinas Society 2006 CFP

Conferences

• North American Levinas Society 2007
• Psychology for the Other: A Seminar on Emmanuel Levinas

Organizations

• Levinas Ethical Legacy Foundation

Book Reviews

• On Escape | Michael R. Michau
• Addressing Levinas | Martin Kavka
• Levinas and the Political | Eric Sean Nelson

Levinas Concordance

• Cristian Ciocan and Georges Hansel
  2005, VI, 951 p., Hardcover
  ISBN: 1-4020-4124-1
• This work is the first Levinas Concordance, covering all 28 books published by Levinas in French.

Publications: Primary Sources

• Collected Philosophical Papers | Trans. Alphonso Lingis
• Ethics and Infinity: Conversations With Philippe Nemo | Trans. Richard Cohen
• Existence and Existents | Trans. Alphonso Lingis
• New Talmudic Readings | Trans. Richard Cohen
• Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence | Trans. Alphonso Lingis
• Time and the Other | Trans. Richard Cohen
• Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority | Trans. Alphonso Lingis
• Basic Philosophical Writings | Edited by Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley, and Robert Bernasconi
• Nine Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel Levinas | Trans. Annette Aronowicz
• Alterity and Transcendence | Trans. Michael B. Smith
• Entre Nous: Essays on Thinking-of-the-Other | Trans. Michael B. Smith and Barbara Harshav
• In the Time of the Nations | Trans. Michael B. Smith
• Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism | Trans. Seán Hand
• On Escape | Trans. Bettina Bergo
• Is It Righteous to Be? Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas | Ed. Jill Robbins
• God, Death, and Time | Trans. Bettina Bergo
• Of God Who Comes to Mind | Trans. Bettina Bergo
• Proper Names | Trans. Michael B. Smith
• Outside the Subject | Emmanuel Levinas
• Discovering Existence with Husserl | Emmanuel Levinas
• Theory of Intuition in Husserl's Phenomenology | Emmanuel Levinas

Publications: Secondary Sources

• An-Archy and Justice: An Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas's Political Thought | William Paul Simmons
• Addressing Levinas | Eds. Eric Sean Nelson, Antje Kapust, Kent Still
• Levinas Studies: An Annual Review | Eds. Jeffrey Bloechl & Jeffrey L. Kosky
• The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan | David Ross Fryer
• Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism | Oona Ajzenstat
• Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference | Eds. Peter Atterton, Matthew Calarco & Maurice Friedman
• Levinas Between Ethics and Politics: For the Beauty that Adorns the Earth | Bettina Bergo
• Liturgy of the Neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas and the Religion of Responsibility | Jeffery Bloechl
• Psychology for the Other: Levinas, Ethics and the Practice of Psychology | Eds. Edwin E. Gantt and Richard N. Williams
• Hiddenness and Alterity: Philosophical and Literary Sightings of the Unseen | James R. Mensch
• Toward the Outside: Concepts and Themes in Emmanuel Levinas | Michael B. Smith
• In the Margins of Deconstruction: Jewish Conceptions of Ethics in Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida | Martin C. Srajek
• Appeal and Attitude | Steven G. Smith
• Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas | John Llewelyn
• Levinas and the Philosophy of Religion | Jeffrey L. Kosky
• Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine: The Silent Footsteps of Rebecca | Claire Elise Katz
• Re-reading Levinas | Eds. Robert Bernasconi and Simon Critchley
• Levinas and Theology | Michael Purcell, available January 2006
• Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation | Leora Batnitzky, available April 2006
• The Cambridge Companion to Levinas | Eds. Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi
• Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas | Richard Cohen
• The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology | Ed. Graham Ward
• The Levinas Reader | Ed. Sean Hand
• Ethical Criticism: Reading After Levinas | Robert Eaglestone
• Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death | R. Clifton Spargo
• Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas | Hent de Vries, Trans. Geoffrey Hale
• Time, Death, and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger | Tina Chanter
• Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas | Jacques Derrida, Trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas
• Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas | Ed. Sean Hand
• Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics | Samuel Moyn
• Beyond: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas | Adriaan Peperzak
• Levinas and Lacan: The Missed Encounter | Ed. Sarah Harasym
• Face to Face with Levinas | Ed. Richard A. Cohen
• Death and Responsibility: The "Work" of Levinas | Dennis King Keenan
• Fence and the Neighbor, The Emmanuel Levinas, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and Israel among the Nations | Adam Zachary Newton
• Gift of the Other, The Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction | Lisa Guenther
• Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutics of Nearness Heidegger, Levinas, Stevens, Celan | Krzysztof Ziarek
• Learning from the Other Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and Ethical Possibilities in Education | Sharon Todd
• The Paradox of Power and Weakness: Levinas and an Alternative Paradigm for Psychology | George Kunz
• Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben | Thomas Carl Wall
• Sensibility and Singularity: The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas | John E. Drabinski
• The Holocaust and the Postmodern | Robert Eaglestone
• The Step Back: Ethics And Politics After Deconstruction | David Wood
• On Levinas | Peter Atterton & Matthew Calarco
• The Continental Ethics Reader | Peter Atterton & Matthew Calarco
• Altered Reading: Levinas and Literature | Jill Robbins
• Altarity | Mark C. Taylor
• Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas | Richard A. Cohen
• Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought | Simon Critchley

Links

• The Emmanuel Levinas Web Page | Peter Atterton
• The Levinas Center at UNCC | Richard Cohen
• Institut d'études Lévinassiennes | en français
• Colloquium on Violence & Religion
• Gregory A. Clark's corrected Index to Otherwise Than Being:
  • keyword index
  • name and title index
• Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology

Essays

• "The Jewish Understanding of Scripture" | Emmanuel Levinas
• "Ethics and Trauma: Levinas, Feminism, and Deep Ecology" | Roger S. Gottlieb
• "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Readings: Between Tradition and Invention" | Moyn, Samuel
• "Total Altruism in Levinas's "Ethics of the Welcome" | M. Jamie Ferreira
• "The Return of the Religious, or Reading Ethics Using Religious Categories: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and Recent French Thought" | Bettina BergoM
• "Addressing Alterity: Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and the Nonappropriative Relation" | D. Diane Davis

• Announcements of the NALS:

  • The 2007 conference schedule is available both as a Microsoft Word .doc and as a webpage. We also have bios highlighting NALS' 2007 plenary speakers.
  • Electronic conference registration has begun! Please visit our conference registration website at your convenience.
  • The Levinas Society Memebership Pay-pal link is once again running on our membership page. Please take a minute to renew your membership before the conference.
  • Newsletter of the NALS 2.3 / June, 2007

• Welcome to our new website. Its been a long couple of months, but we have our new URL active in time for our second annual conference. Our new site meets the highest standards for usability and should keep load times to a minimum (dial-up friendly).