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Levinas in a sentence

Using Levinas

  • In the example corpus, levinas often appears in combinations such as: emmanuel levinas.

Context around Levinas

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 0 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

emmanuel 3× describes 1×

Often after:

correctly 1× asked 1× transcending 1×

Sentence patterns with Levinas

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

emmanuel levinas in 1929 1× hoy describes levinas s account 1× levinas also condemned 1× levinas asked whether 1× levinas was deeply 1× philosopher emmanuel levinas correctly observed 1× that emmanuel levinas s writings 1× to levinas transcending ethics 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

as the french 1× david couzens hoy 1× emmanuel levinas in 1× hoy describes levinas 1× levinas also condemned 1× levinas asked whether 1×

Common sentence endings:

1980s and 1990s 1× 2004 p 8 1× difficult to forgive 1× front of me 1× proposed it did 1× seminars in freiburg 1×

Words around Levinas

Just before it in the word index:

levin 206 levillain 8 levieva 5 leviev 3 levies 208 levier 2

Just after it in the word index:

levine 232 levingston 4 levinovitz 14 levins 7 levinsohn 14 levinson 78

Similar in corpus frequency:

aargau 11 abacos 11 abboud 11 abbreviate 11 abdelkader 11 abdomens 11

Corpus analysis for Levinas

  • In this selection, "levinas" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, emmanuel, describes, correctly, asked and transcending stand out and add context to how "levinas" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include emmanuel levinas in 1929 and hoy describes levinas s account. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "levinas" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with levinas

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Emmanuel Levinas in 1929 gave a presentation at one of Husserl's last seminars in Freiburg. (16 words)

Levinas asked whether the idea of absolutism survived after the Holocaust, which he proposed it did. (16 words)

To Levinas, "transcending ethics" seems like a loophole to excuse would-be murderers from their crime and thus is unacceptable. (20 words)

Longer example sentences

David Couzens Hoy states that Emmanuel Levinas 's writings on the face of the Other and Derrida 's meditations on the relevance of death to ethics are signs of the "ethical turn" in Continental philosophy that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. (42 words)

Hoy describes Levinas's account as "not the attempt to use power against itself, or to mobilize sectors of the population to exert their political power; the ethical resistance is instead the resistance of the powerless"(2004, p. 8). (39 words)

As the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas correctly observed, seeing someone else creates an ethical demand that would not exist if that person were not in front of me. (29 words)

Example sentences (8)

As the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas correctly observed, seeing someone else creates an ethical demand that would not exist if that person were not in front of me.

David Couzens Hoy states that Emmanuel Levinas 's writings on the face of the Other and Derrida 's meditations on the relevance of death to ethics are signs of the "ethical turn" in Continental philosophy that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s.

Emmanuel Levinas in 1929 gave a presentation at one of Husserl's last seminars in Freiburg.

Hoy describes Levinas's account as "not the attempt to use power against itself, or to mobilize sectors of the population to exert their political power; the ethical resistance is instead the resistance of the powerless"(2004, p. 8).

Levinas also condemned Heidegger's involvement with National Socialism, stating: "One can forgive many Germans, but there are some Germans it is difficult to forgive.

Levinas asked whether the idea of absolutism survived after the Holocaust, which he proposed it did.

Levinas was deeply influenced by Heidegger, and yet became one of his fiercest critics, contrasting the infinity of the good beyond being with the immanence and totality of ontology.

To Levinas, "transcending ethics" seems like a loophole to excuse would-be murderers from their crime and thus is unacceptable.

Common combinations with levinas

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

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