Maurice Blanchot
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Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post-st
Blanchot in 1927
Emmanuel Levinas
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Emmanuel Levinas 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
Maurice Blanchot
…a student association modelled on the German Burschenschaften, and became a close lifelong friend of the Lithuanian-born French Jewish phenomenologist Emmanuel Levinas. On his friend's recommendation, he read Martin Heidegger's newly published Being and Time and described it as an "intellectual shock". In 1930 he…
Emmanuel Levinas