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Emmanuel Levinas

1906 to 1995 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Emmanuel Levinas across 3 places, from 1906 to 1928. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Emmanuel Levinas (born Emanuelis Levinas; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ontology.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Emmanuel Levinas was documented, and when

12 January 1906exact date
Kaunasattested “Levinas was born on 12 January 1906, into a middle-class Litvak family in Kaunas, in present-day Lithuania, then Kovno district, at the Western edge of the Russian Empire.” source: Wikipedia: Emmanuel Levinas
1923year
University of Strasbourgattested “Levinas began his philosophical studies at the University of Strasbourg in 1923, and his lifelong friendship with the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot.” source: Wikipedia: Emmanuel Levinas
1928year
University of Freiburgattested “In 1928, he went to the University of Freiburg for two semesters to study phenomenology under Edmund Husserl.” source: Wikipedia: Emmanuel Levinas

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Places Emmanuel Levinas is documented in

University of Freiburg1 presence · 1928University of Strasbourg1 presence · 1923
Kaunas1 presence · 1906

Other places tied to Emmanuel Levinas in the record

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October 1917month
Kharkivmentioned “Because of the disruptions of World War I, the family moved to Kharkiv in Ukraine in 1916, where they stayed during the Russian revolutions of February and October 1917.” source: Wikipedia: Emmanuel Levinas
October 1917month
Ukrainementioned “Because of the disruptions of World War I, the family moved to Kharkiv in Ukraine in 1916, where they stayed during the Russian revolutions of February and October 1917.” source: Wikipedia: Emmanuel Levinas
1957year
Monastery of Toumlilinementioned “He participated in 1957 at the International Meeting at the monastery of Toumliline, a conference focused on contemporary challenges and interfaith dialogue.” source: Wikipedia: Emmanuel Levinas
1961 to 1979period
University of Poitiersmentioned “Levinas began teaching at the University of Poitiers in 1961, at the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris in 1967, and at the Sorbonne in 1973, from which he retired in 1979.” source: Wikipedia: Emmanuel Levinas
1961 to 1979period
Nanterrementioned “Levinas began teaching at the University of Poitiers in 1961, at the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris in 1967, and at the Sorbonne in 1973, from which he retired in 1979.” source: Wikipedia: Emmanuel Levinas

Documented at the same place, the same year

Hans JonasUniversity of Freiburg · 1928

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