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Emmanuel Levinas  

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  • Emmanuel Levinas (1906–95) was a Jewish Lithuanian philosopher in the phenomenological tradition. That is, he followed Edmund Husserl in seeking truth not in transcendental realities or logical analytics, but in the lived experience of subjects. [Source: Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics; Levinas, Emmanuel]

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