Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics of Democracy

FAIN: FS-267118-19

SUNY Research Foundation, University at Buffalo (Amherst, NY 14228-2577)
Richard A. Cohen (Project Director: February 2019 to January 2026)
James M. McLachlan (Co Project Director: October 2019 to January 2026)

A One-week seminar for 16 college and university faculty on Levinas and democracy.

One-week Seminar for College and University Teachers, to be held at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), July 20-24, 2020, for sixteen participants. Director: Richard A. Cohen; Co-Director: James McLachlan; Co-Organizer: Jolanta Saldukaityte. Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is now accounted one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century for having grounded meaning, truth and politics in an ethics rooted in the obligations of moral responsibility: putting the other person first. The Seminar will present and discuss Levinas’s thought as a profound and relevant framing to grasp the interrelationships which bind freedom to democracy and democracy to ethics.