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  1.  7
    Humanism of the Other.Emmanuel Levinas & Richard A. Cohen - 2005 - University of Illinois Press.
    Levinas on the possibility and need for humanist ethics In Humanism of the Other, Emmanuel Levinas argues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others. In paperback for the first time, Levinas's work here is based in a new appreciation for ethics and takes new distances from phenomenology, idealism, and skepticism to rehabilitate humanism and restore its promises. Painfully aware of the long history of dehumanization that reached its (...)
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    Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas.Richard A. Cohen - 1994 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    This elevating pull of an ethics that can account for the relation of self and other without reducing either term is the central theme of these essays.
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    Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation After Levinas.Richard A. Cohen - 2001 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas pioneered new forms of exegesis with his post-modern readings of the Talmud, and as an ethicist brought together religious and non-religious, Jewish and non-Jewish traditions of contemporary thought. Richard A. Cohen has written a book which uses (...)
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  4. Discovering Existence with Husserl.Emmanuel Levinas, Richard A. Cohen & Michael B. Smith - 1998 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 190 (4):532-533.
     
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    Face to Face with Levinas: Neighborhood Reinvestment and Displacement.Richard A. Cohen (ed.) - 1986 - State University of New York Press.
    An introduction to the ethical and ontological import of Levinas' philosophy.
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  6. Levinas: thinking least about death—contra heidegger.Richard A. Cohen - 2006 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 60 (1-3):21-39.
    Detailed exposition of the nine layers of signification of human mortality according to Emmanuel Levinas's phenomenological and ethical account of the meaning and role of death for the embodied human subject and its relations to other persons. Critical contrast to Martin Heidegger's alternative and hitherto more influential phenomenological-ontological conception, elaborated in "Being and Time", of mortality as Dasein's anxious and revelatory being-toward-death.
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  7. Elevations. The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas.Richard A. Cohen - 1997 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 59 (1):158-158.
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  8. Face to Face with Levinas.Richard A. Cohen - 1988 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 50 (1):166-167.
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    Ethics and cybernetics: Levinasian reflections. [REVIEW]Richard A. Cohen - 2000 - Ethics and Information Technology 2 (1):27-35.
    Is cybernetics good, bad, or indifferent? SherryTurkle enlists deconstructive theory to celebrate thecomputer age as the embodiment of difference. Nolonger just a theory, one can now live a virtual life. Within a differential but ontologically detachedfield of signifiers, one can construct and reconstructegos and environments from the bottom up andendlessly. Lucas Introna, in contrast, enlists theethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas to condemn thesame computer age for increasing the distance betweenflesh and blood people. Mediating the face-to-facerelation between real people, allowing and (...)
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    Excesses: Eros and Culture.Richard A. Cohen & Alphonso Lingis - 1987 - Substance 16 (1):98.
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    Levinas on Art and Aestheticism: Getting “Reality and Its Shadow” Right.Richard A. Cohen - 2016 - Levinas Studies 11 (1):149-194.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Levinas on Art and AestheticismGetting “Reality and Its Shadow” RightRichard A. Cohen (bio)1. The Standard Misreading of Levinas on Arta. IntroductionMuch has been written in the secondary literature about Levinas and art and about Levinas and literature more specifically. In addition to Maurice Blanchot’s observations in The Writing of the Disaster, which is more a primary text than a secondary source, two exceptional studies — well-written, insightful, nuanced, erudite (...)
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  12. Out of control: confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas.Richard A. Cohen - 2016 - Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
    I. Levinas, Spinozism, Nietzsche and the body -- II. Prophetic speech in Levinas and Spinoza (and Maimonides) -- III. Levinas and Spinoza: to love God for nothing -- IV. Levinas and Spinoza: justice and the state -- V. Spinoza's Prince: for whom is the theological-political treatise written? VI. Levinas on Spinoza's misunderstanding of Judaism -- VII. Thinking least about death: mortality and morality in Spinoza, Heidegger and Levinas -- VIII. Spleen: Spinoza's babies, fools and madmen.
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    What Good is the Holocaust? On Suffering and Evil.Richard A. Cohen - 1999 - Philosophy Today 43 (2):176-183.
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    Levinas on Art and Aestheticism: Getting “Reality and Its Shadow” Right.Richard A. Cohen - 2016 - Levinas Studies 11 (1):149-194.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Levinas on Art and AestheticismGetting “Reality and Its Shadow” RightRichard A. Cohen (bio)1. The Standard Misreading of Levinas on Arta. IntroductionMuch has been written in the secondary literature about Levinas and art and about Levinas and literature more specifically. In addition to Maurice Blanchot’s observations in The Writing of the Disaster, which is more a primary text than a secondary source, two exceptional studies — well-written, insightful, nuanced, erudite (...)
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    Discovering Existence with Husserl.Richard A. Cohen & Michael B. Smith (eds.) - 1998 - Northwestern University Press.
    Contemporary philosophers are increasingly turning to the work of Emmanuel Levinas to bring a consideration of ethics into their own thinking. As an exponent of the phenomenological tradition, Levinas ranks with Heidegger and Sartre; as a disciple of Husserl, he was one of the most independent and original interpreters, testifying to the fruitfulness of Husserl's phenomenology. In collecting almost all of Levinas's articles on Husserlian phenomenology, this volume gathers together a wealth of thoughtful exposition and interpretation by one of the (...)
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    Ricoeur as Another: The Ethics of Subjectivity.Richard A. Cohen & James L. Marsh (eds.) - 2002 - State University of New York Press.
    Leading scholars address Paul Ricoeur's last major work, Oneself as Another.
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    Emmanuel Levinas: Happiness is a Sensational Time.Richard A. Cohen - 1981 - Philosophy Today 25 (3):196-203.
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    Authentic selfhood in Heidegger and Rosenzweig.Richard A. Cohen - 1993 - Human Studies 16 (1-2):111 - 128.
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    Merleau-Ponty, the Flesh and Foucault.Richard A. Cohen - 1984 - Philosophy Today 28 (4):329-338.
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    Levinas, Rosenzweig, and the Phenomenologies of Husserl and Heidegger.Richard A. Cohen - 1988 - Philosophy Today 32 (2):165-178.
  21. Against theology, or the devotion of a theology without theodicy : Levinas on religion.Richard A. Cohen - 2010 - In Kevin Hart & Michael Alan Signer (eds.), The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians. Fordham University Press.
     
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  22. Editor’s Introduction.Richard A. Cohen & Jolanta Saldukaitytė - 2016 - Levinas Studies 11 (1):7-14.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Editor’s IntroductionRichard A. Cohen (bio) and Jolanta Saldukaitytė (bio)For more than a decade, Levinas Studies has served admirably as the only English-language journal dedicated exclusively to the academic study of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas. It is an honor to coedit an issue of Levinas Studies — not only to contribute articles but also to organize an entire volume. Volume 11 of Levinas Studies gathers together essays from scholars (...)
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  23. John Sallis, "The Gathering of Reason". [REVIEW]Richard A. Cohen - 1982 - Man and World 15 (3):337.
     
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    The Politics of Humanity: Justice and Power.Richard A. Cohen, Tito Marci & Luca Scuccimarra (eds.) - 2021 - Springer Verlag.
    This book is the collaborative response of engaged scholars from diverse countries and disciplines who are disturbed by the contemporary resurgence of anti-democratic movements and regimes throughout the world. These movements have manifest in vitriolic “nationalist” polemics, state-supported violence, and exclusionary anti-immigrant policies, less than a century after the rise and fall and horrific devastations of fascism in the early 20th century.
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    Levinas Faces Biblical Figures.Ephraim Meir, Edna Langenthal, Gary D. Mole, Elisabeth Goldwyn, Catherine Chalier, Eli Schonfeld, Michal Ben-Naftali, Richard A. Cohen, Hanoch Ben-Pazi & Tamar Abramov (eds.) - 2014 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    Levinas Faces Biblical Figures captures the drama of the encounter between a great philosopher and a text of primary importance. The book considers the ways in which Levinas's thoughts can open up the biblical text to requestioning, and how the biblical text can inform our reading of Levinas.
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    Heidegger’s Dasein-Analytic of Instrumentality In Being and Time and the Thinking of The “Extreme Danger” of the Question of Technology, and Frederick Tonnies’Community And Society.Richard A. Cohen - 2010 - Philosophy Today 54 (Supplement):91-100.
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    Some Notes on the Title of Levinas’s Totality and Infinity and its First Sentence.Richard A. Cohen - 2006 - Studia Phaenomenologica 6:117-137.
    Alternative oppositions to “infinity” and “totality” are suggested, examined and shown to be inadequate by comparison to the sense of the opposition contained in title Totality and Infinity chosen by Levinas. Special attention is given to this opposition and the priority given to ethics in relation Kant’s distinction between understanding and reason and the priority given by Kant to ethics. The book’s title is further illuminated by means of its first sentence, and the first sentence is illuminated by means of (...)
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    Justice and the State in the Thought of Levinas and Spinoza.Richard A. Cohen - 1996 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (1):55-70.
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    Le meme et l'autreModern French Philosophy.Richard A. Cohen, Vincent Descombes, L. Scott-Fox & J. M. Harding - 1981 - Substance 10 (3):79.
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    Book Reviews. Robert S. Tragesser: 'Husserl and Realism in Logic and Mathematics'. Yung-Han Kim: 'Phanomenologie und Theologie. Studien zur Fruchtbarmachung des transzendentalphanomenologischen Denkens fur das christlich-dogmatische Denken'. Alphonso Lingis: 'Phenomenological Explanations'. [REVIEW]Dallas Willard, James G. Hart & Richard A. Cohen - 1988 - Husserl Studies 5 (1):69-80.
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    Difficulty and Mortality.Richard A. Cohen - 2000 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 7 (1):59-66.
    I argue against the work of simplifying and applying Levinas’s thought. Simplifying Levinas misses the point of the greatness of his thought, which is addressed to the most sophisticated philosophical thinkers of his day, and calls upon them to re-ground philosophy in the ethical. Applying Levinas misses the point that Levinas’s conception of alterity is perfectly concrete, because it is linked to morality through the mortality of the other.
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  32. Plato, Judaism, Kant and Information Technology.Richard A. Cohen - 2008 - International Review of Information Ethics 9:08.
    Plato’s two complaints in the Phaedrus about the new technology of writing, namely, that reliance upon it leads to forgetfulness and fosters intellectual misunderstanding, which are here taken equally to be relevant. Possible complaints about contemporary information technology, are examined and assessed, in themselves and in relation to Jewish rabbinic exegetical tradition and in relation to Immanuel Kant’s positive claims for text based religions in Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone.
     
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    Emmanuel Levinas, "Nine Talmudic Readings". [REVIEW]Richard A. Cohen - 1993 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1):154.
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    Social Theory in Kant’s Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone.Richard A. Cohen - 2021 - International Philosophical Quarterly 61 (4):409-438.
    The present article argues: that to support the primary aim of Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, which is to establish the primacy of practical reason for religion, Kant elaborates and assigns to it a social ethics. Contrary to the tired adage that without religious foundation ethics must collapse, the reverse is actually the case: without ethical foundation religion must collapse, degenerating into dogmatism, superstition and fanaticism. To ground and concretize the link between ethics and religion Kant elaborates a (...)
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    Levinas, Plato and Ethical Exegesis.Richard A. Cohen - 2005 - Levinas Studies 1:37-50.
    Chapter 7 of my book, Ethics, Exegesis, and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas, entitled “Humanism and the Rights of Exegesis,” was devoted to elaboratingthe notion of “ethical exegesis.” The notion of ethical exegesis is not only inspired by Levinas’s thought, but expresses the essential character of it, its “method,” as it were, the “saying” of its “said.” Accordingly, here I will begin by reviewing some of what I have already said about ethical exegesis, and then I will develop this notion further (...)
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    Franz Rosenzweig's star of redemption and Kant.Richard A. Cohen - 2010 - Philosophical Forum 41 (1-2):73-98.
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    Some Notes on the Title of Levinas’s Totality and Infinity and its First Sentence.Richard A. Cohen - 2006 - Studia Phaenomenologica 6:117-137.
    Alternative oppositions to “infinity” and “totality” are suggested, examined and shown to be inadequate by comparison to the sense of the opposition contained in title Totality and Infinity chosen by Levinas. Special attention is given to this opposition and the priority given to ethics in relation Kant’s distinction between understanding and reason and the priority given by Kant to ethics. The book’s title is further illuminated by means of its first sentence, and the first sentence is illuminated by means of (...)
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    Introduction: Politics, Humanity, Power and Justice.Richard A. Cohen - 2021 - In Richard A. Cohen, Tito Marci & Luca Scuccimarra (eds.), The Politics of Humanity: Justice and Power. Springer Verlag. pp. 1-19.
    This volume brings together a variety of scholars and intellectual disciplines from around the world and across academia. Differences of person, place, culture, history and expertise do not alienate but rather fructify the perspectives of the ongoing conversation of the politics of humanity. The latter is a struggle for justice, for human rights, to be sure, but also for the availability, sustainability and fair distribution of food, clothing, shelter, health care, culture and living environment, and all the concrete conditions necessary (...)
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    The Future of Justice: Politics, Time and the Contemporary Political Triangulation—Liberalism, Socialism and Fascism.Richard A. Cohen - 2021 - In Richard A. Cohen, Tito Marci & Luca Scuccimarra (eds.), The Politics of Humanity: Justice and Power. Springer Verlag. pp. 153-200.
    Contemporary philosophy realizes that time, like language and embodiment, is not an obstacle to truth and reality but one of its primary mediums. Time is dimensionality, past, present, future, and directionality, before and after. Politics has its own temporality. Conservatives aim to restore a selected past; progressives to create a better future; and authoritarians to reinforce the present status quo. In each case, however, the dominant temporal dimension is the future. Time, as Levinas has shown, is also inter-subjective, that is (...)
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    Tears. [REVIEW]Richard A. Cohen - 1993 - International Studies in Philosophy 25 (1):109-109.
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    Alterity and Transcendence. [REVIEW]Richard A. Cohen - 2005 - International Studies in Philosophy 37 (4):149-151.
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    Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy (review).Richard A. Cohen - 1982 - Philosophy and Literature 6 (1-2):223-224.
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    Levinas, Plato and Ethical Exegesis.Richard A. Cohen - 2005 - Levinas Studies 1:37-50.
    Chapter 7 of my book, Ethics, Exegesis, and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas, entitled “Humanism and the Rights of Exegesis,” was devoted to elaboratingthe notion of “ethical exegesis.” The notion of ethical exegesis is not only inspired by Levinas’s thought, but expresses the essential character of it, its “method,” as it were, the “saying” of its “said.” Accordingly, here I will begin by reviewing some of what I have already said about ethical exegesis, and then I will develop this notion further (...)
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    Poetique du possible. [REVIEW]Richard A. Cohen - 1986 - Review of Metaphysics 40 (2):382-384.
    In many ways the whole of contemporary thought reduces to the search for new middle terms, such as 'desire', 'will to power', 'language', and "difference', to mediate, displace, or evade the classical philosophical dualisms, such as being and nonbeing, ideality and reality, mind and matter, is and ought. These dualisms--set up by the ancients, pursued by the moderns, and bequeathed to us contemporaries by their failures--are Kearney's target. His aim is to overcome them through the notion of figuration. This term--as (...)
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    Emmanuel Levinas: Philosopher and Jew.Richard A. Cohen - 2006 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 62 (2/4):481 - 490.
    Levinas seamlessly unites philosophy and religion via ethics. By doing so he satisfies philosophy's quest for justification by finding it neither in epistemology nor aesthetics (nor in an escapist "fundamentalism") but in the responsibility of each person for each other and for all others. That is to say, the "ground" of meaning emerges neither in intellect nor imagination but in the moral responsibilities one person has for another and, beyond these already infinite obligations, in the justice - law and equality (...)
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    Non-in-difference in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas and Franz Rosenzweig.Richard A. Cohen - 1988 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 13 (1):141-153.
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    Levinas's Ethical Politics. [REVIEW]Richard A. Cohen - 2017 - Review of Metaphysics 70 (3).
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    Chronicles.Richard A. Cohen & William Maker - 1982 - Man and World 15 (1):117-122.
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    Levinas and the paradox of monotheism.Richard A. Cohen - 2005 - In Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas. Routledge. pp. 3--59.
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  50. Mmanuel levinas/"existence and existents". [REVIEW]Richard A. Cohen - 1979 - Man and World 12 (4):521.
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