Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995)

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1. Jacques Derrida

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2. Emmanuel Levinas

   Author of Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, Ethics and Infinity: Conversations With Philippe Nemo, Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings (Studies in Continental Thought)

3. Martin Heidegger

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4. Gilles Deleuze

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5. Maurice Blanchot

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6. Giorgio Agamben

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7. Jean-Luc Nancy

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8. Paul Ricoeur

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9. Georges Bataille

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10. John D. Caputo

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11. Jean-Francois Lyotard

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12. Edmund Husserl

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13. Paul de Man

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14. Alain Badiou

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15. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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16. Jean-Luc Marion

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17. Gershom Scholem

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18. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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19. Soren Kierkegaard

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20. Hans-Georg Gadamer

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