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Danielle Cohen-Levinas

b. 1959

French musicologist, pianist and philosopher

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Born 1959. Danielle Cohen-Levinas is a French musicologist, pianist, philosopher and university teacher.

Danielle Cohen-Levinas (born 21 April 1959 in Paris) is a French philosopher, musicologist, and a specialist of Jewish philosophy.

Biography A pianist by training and former graduate of the Conservatoire de Paris, Danielle Cohen-Levinas followed a double course in philosophy and musicology at the Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV which she renamed Centre Emmanuel Levinas (EA 3552) in 2012. She has been a research associate at the Husserl Archives of Paris at the École Normale Supérieure of (ENS-CNRS) since 2008 where she works more specifically on the work of Emmanuel Levinas and on his influence in international research. It is within the framework of the "Collège des études juives et de philosophie contemporaine" that she took the initiative in December 2016, in collaboration with Perrine Simon-Nahum, to ensure the revival of the "Colloque des Intellectuels juifs de langue française" (NCIJLF).

Alongside her research in aesthetics and philosophy of music, in contemporary philosophy and post-phenomenology in France, Danielle Cohen-Levinas deploys a work in Jewish philosophy, She is the president of Les Cahiers Maurice Blanchot, which she co-founded with Monique Antelme and Mike Holland in 2010.

Danielle Cohen-Levinas is married to composer and pianist Michaël Levinas.

Main publications

Philosophy, music La voix au-delà du chant, une fenêtre aux ombres, édition augmentée, Paris, Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2006 (1st edition Michel de Maule, 1987) Le présent de l’opéra au XXe : chemins vers les nouvelles utopies, Paris, Kimé, 2001 (1st edition Art éd., 1994) Passage d’un seuil : thème et variations sur l’œuvre de Jean-Marc Bustamante, Éditions Musée de Eindhoven, 1994. Des notations musicales : frontières et singularités, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1996. La création après la musique contemporaine, L'Harmattan 1998. Causeries sur la musique, L'Harmattan, 1998. Le Style et l’Idée d’Arnold Schoenberg, new edition established and prefaced by Danielle Cohen-Levinas, first French edition, 1977, Paris, Buchet/Chastel; last édition, Paris, Buchet/Chastel, 2002, preceded by a study Prolégomènes au style et à l’idée musicale. Emmanuel Levinas : pour une philosophie de l’hétéronomie (dir.), Paris, Bayard, 2006 Levinas et les théologies (codir. Shmuel Trigano), Paris, In Press, 2007 Les territoires de la pensée (codir. Bruno Clément), Paris, PUF, 2007 Temps historique, temps messianique, revue Lignes, October 2008. L’impatience des langues, cowritten with Gérard Bensussan, Éditions Hermann, 2010. Emmanuel Levinas et le souci de l'art (dir.), Manucius, Paris, 2010. Le siècle de Schoenberg (dir.), Hermann, 2010. Lire Totalité et Infini, Études et interprétations, Hermann, 2011. Europe, issue on Emmanuel Levinas, Paris, 2011. Levinas / Derrida : lire ensemble, coedited with Marc Crépon, Hermann, 2015. Figures du dehors, autour de Jean-Luc Nancy, (codir. Gisèle Berkman), ed. Cécile Defaut, L'énigme de l'humain, Politique et meta-politique chez Emmanuel Levinas (interviews with Miguel Abensour), Hermann, 2012. Europe, issue on Walter Benjamin, Paris, 2013. L'Opéra et son double, Paris, Vrin, 2013. La philosophie de Schelling. Le temps du système, le système des temps (dir. Revue Germanique Internationale), Paris, Éd. du CNRS, 2013. Vers une analytique de l'esprit chez Emmanuel Levinas, followed by Emmanuel Levinas's text, La compréhension de la spiritualité dans les cultures française et allemande, Paris, Payot/Rivage, 2014. , précédé du texte d'Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Celan, dall'essere all' altro (French version, Paul Celan, de l'être à l'autre, Fata Morgana, 2002), translated into Italian by Giuseppe Pintus, Rome, Schibboleth, 2014. Partilha da literatura (Partage de la littérature), translated into Portuguese by Fabricia Walace Rodrigues, Gabriela Lafetá Borges, Juliana Cecci Silva, Lucas Sales Lyra, Luísa Freitas, Nivalda Assunção de Araújo et Piero Eyben, edited by Piero Eyben and Alberto Pucheu, Brasilia, Horizonte, 2014. Appels by Jacques Derrida, preceded by a text by Jacques Derrida, "Justices" (ed. Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Ginette Michaud), Paris, Hermann, 2014. Levinas-Derrida. Lire ensemble (ed. Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Marc Crépon), Paris, Hermann, 2014. Inventions à deux voix. Interviews with Jean-Luc Nancy, Paris, Le Felin, 2015. Relire Totalité et Infini d'Emmanuel Levinas, (ed. Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Alexander Schnell), Paris, Vrin, 2015, series "Problèmes et Controverses". Mystique et philosophie dans les trois monothéismes (ed. Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Géraldine Roux and Meryem Sebti), Paris, Hermann, 2015. Une percée de l'humain, followed by a text by Emmanuel Levinas, Être juif, and an unpublished letter to Maurice Blanchot, Paris, Payot/Rivages poche, 2015. Le devenir-juif du poème. Double envoi : Celan et Derrida, Montréal, Presses Universitaires de Montréal, 2015. Revue Europe, issue on Paul Celan (ed. Danielle Cohen-Levinas), Paris, 2016. L'antijudaïsme à l'épreuve de la philosophie et de la théologie (ed. Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Antoine Guggenheim), series "Le genre humain", Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 2016. Leo Strauss, judaïsme et philosophie (ed. Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Marc de Launay and Gérald Sfez), Paris, ed. Beauchesne, 2016. Relire Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence by Emmanuel Levinas (ed. Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Alexander Schnell), Paris, Librairie Vrin, 2016. La Phénoménologie de l'Esprit de Hegel aujourd'hui (ed.), Revue Germanique Internationale, Paris, ed. CNRS, 2016. Perspectives néokantiennes (ed. Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Juan Manuel Garrido and Marc de Launay), Paris, ed. Hermann, 2017.

Poetry and literary prose 2004: Un bruit dans le bruit, Paris, Mercure de France 2004; Le soleil est grammatical, Mercure de France 2004: La tristesse du Roi, Mercure de France 2010: Le pain des épices, cowritten with Ginette Michaud, Montréal 2012: Qui est comme Dieu, Paris, Belin, 2012 (poems).

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Conservatoire de Paris, Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

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French musicologist, pianist and philosopher

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Danielle Cohen-Levinas was born on 21 April 1959 in Paris.

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Danielle Cohen-Levinas is a musicologist, pianist, philosopher and university teacher.

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