Emmanuel Levinas (1905–1995), a French philosopher and moralist, formulated in a new form a universal moral maxim, or imperative, enriching it with deep semantic content that expresses the urgent spiritual needs of the era. E. Levinas developed an ethical concept of genuine relationships that would affect and transform human communication and culture as a whole; The moral and metaphysical principles of the teachings of E. Levinas are based on a critical analysis of the spiritual situation of modern Western society. Developing traditions going back to M. Buber, G. Marcel, M. Bakhtin, and other outstanding thinkers of the era, E. Levinas comes to the conviction that philosophy is, first of all, the wisdom of compassion, the wisdom of love. This volume includes the following works of E. Levinas : “From existence to existence”, “Totality and the Infinite”, “Foreshortenings” and a number of others, as well as Jacques Derrida’s essay “Violence and Metaphysics” dedicated to the work of E. Levinas.