Books
- Levinasian Meditations: Ethics, Philosophy and
Religion. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press,
2010. 377 pp.
- Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation After
Levinas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001. 361 pp.
- Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and
Levinas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1994. 342 pp.
Books Translated, Edited and/or Introduced
- Ricoeur As Another: The Ethics of
Subjectivity. Edited by Richard A. Cohen and James
L. Marsh. Albany: State University of New York Press,
2001.
- In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the Eighteenth
Century. Edited by Melvyn New, with Robert Bernasconi
and Richard A. Cohen. Texas Tech University Press, 2001.
- Ninety-five Poems and Hymns by Judah Halevi by
Franz Rosenzweig. Edited and introduced by Richard A.
Cohen. Translated by Eva Jospe, Thomas Kovach and Gerda
Schmidt. Albany: State University of New York Press,
2000.
- New Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel
Levinas. Translated and introduced by Richard A.
Cohen. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1999.
- Discovering Existence with Husserl by Emmanuel
Levinas. Edited and introduced by Richard A. Cohen;
co-translated with Michael Smith.Evanston: Northwestern University
Press, 1998.
- Time and the Other and Additional Essays by
Emmanuel Levinas. Translated, edited, and introduced by
Richard A. Cohen. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press,
1987.
- Face to Face with Levinas. Edited and
introduced by Richard A. Cohen. Albany: State University
of New York Press, 1986.
- Ethics and Infinity by Emmanuel
Levinas. Translated and introduced by Richard A.
Cohen. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press,
1985.
Recent Articles and/or Book Chapters
- “Lukacs and Levinas, and Kant: Totality and
Infinity,” in Levinas issue of “Cultural Heritage
and Contemporary Change” journal of The Council for
Research in Values and Philosophy (forthcoming)
- “Emmanuel Levinas,”in The Routledge
Companion to Phenomenology, ed. S. Luft and S. Overgaard
(New York: Routledge, 2012), 71-81.
- “Heidegger’s Dasein-Analytic of Instrumentality
in Being and Time and the Thinking of The
“Extreme Danger” of the Question of Technology,
and Frederick Tonnies’ Community and
Society,” Philosophy Today, special issue on
“Recenterings of Continental Philosophy,” ed.
Cynthia Willett and Leonard Lawlor, Vol. 54, SPEP Supplement 2010,
91-100.
- “Monotheisme politique: democratie et
transcendence,” (“Political Monotheism:
Democracy and Transcendence”) French translation by Tal
Aronzon, in “Pardes: Etudes et Culture
Juives,”Nos. 47-48, issue on “Entre
ciel et terre, le judaisme: Les sources de la
Loi,” ed. Shmuel Trigano (Paris: Editions In Press,
2010), 269-288.
- “Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of
Redemption and Kant,” Philosophical
Forum, Vol. 41, nos. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer, special
issue, “Back to Kant II: The Fate of Kant in a Time of
Crisis,” ed. Thomas Teufel, 73- 98.
- “Levinas, Spinozism, Nietzsche, and the
Body,” in Nietzsche and Levinas: “After
the Death of a Certain God,” eds. Jill Stauffer and
Bettina Bergo (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009),
165-182.
- “The Few and the Many: Political Philosophy and
Levinas,” in A Century with Levinas: On the
Ruins of Totality, ed. Rita Serpytyte (Vilnius: Vilnius
University Publishing House, 2009), 230-241.
- “Art, Sacred Space and Utopia,” in
“Mokslo darbai: Religija ir Kultura,” Vol. 5,
No. 1 2008 (Vilnius: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla, 2009),
7-23. [this issue appeared in 2010]
- “La teodicea dopo la shoah: Levinas sulla sofferenz e
il male,”(Italian translation of ”Theology after
the Shoah: Levinas on Suffering and Evil,” chapter 8 of
Cohen, Elevations) in “La figura nel
tappeto,” Winter, 2009, 15-32.
- “Ethics and Cybernetics: Levinasian
Reflections,” in Radicalizing Levinas, ed.
Peter Atterton (Albany: State University of New York Press,
2010).
- “Against Theology, or ‘The Devotion of a Theology
Without Theodicy’,” in The Exorbitant:
Levinas Between Jews and Christians, ed. Kevin Hart
and Michael A. Signer. New York: Fordham University Press,
2010; 74-89, 259-264.
- “Levinas and Rosenzweig: Proximities and
Distances,” in Cahiers d’Etudes
Levinassiennes, No. 8, 2009; 13-31.
- “Signifying a Spiritual Politics in the Age of
Secularity: Spinoza, Nietzsche and
Levinas,” in Emmanuel Levinas: Prophetic
Inspiration and Philosophy, ed. Irene Kajon, Emilio
Baccarini, Francesca Brezzi, Joelle Hansel. Florence: La
Giuntina, 2008; 183-196.
- “Heidegger, Kant, Levinas and the End of the
World,” in Responsibility, God and Society:
Theological Ethics in Dialogue (Festschrift Roger
Burggraeve), ed. J. De Tavernier, J.A. Selling, J.
Verstraeten and P. Schotsmans. Leuven: Bibliotheca
Ephermeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 217, 2008; 49-68.
- “Defending Levinas: An Interview with Richard
Cohen,” interviewer, Chung-Hsiung Lai, [Chinese] translation
by Yu-Wen Liu, in Chung-Wai Literary
Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2007, ed. Chung-Hsiung Lai,
267-306.
- "Wisdom of Love,” in Encyclopedia of Love in
World Religions, ed. Yudit K. Greenberg. Santa Barbara,
CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008; 657-658.
- “Uncovering the ‘Difficult Universality’ of
the Face-to-Face,” in Cahiers
Levinassiennes, issue on L’universel, No. 6,
2006; 93-115.
- “Emmanuel Levinas: Judaism and the Primacy of the
Ethical,” in Cambridge Companion to Modern
Jewish Philosophy, ed. Michael L. Morgan and Peter Eli
Gordon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; 234-255
- “Humanisme et antihumanisme: Levinas face a la
controverse Cassirer-Heidegger,” [French] translation by
Catherine Barret,” in Levinas a Jerusalem,
ed. Joelle Hansel. Klincksieck, 2007; 57-91.
- “Emmanuel Levinas: Philosopher and
Jew,” in Revista Portugesa de
filosofia (Braga, Portugal), special
issue Entre Razao e Revelacao: A ‘Logica’ da
simensao semitica na Filosofia [Between
Reason and Revelation: The ‘Logic” of the
Semitic Dimension in Philosophy], Jao J. Vila-Cha, ed., Vol.
62, no. 2-4, 2006; 481-490.
- “Levinas: Thinking Least about Death – contra
Heidegger,” in International Journal for Philosophy
of Religion, ed. Eugene Long, Vol. 60, 2006; 21-39.
Reprinted in Phenomenology 2005, Vol. 5, ed. L.
Embree. New York: Zeta Books, 2008; 163-198.
- “Some Notes on the Title of
Levinas’s Totality and Infinity and its
First Sentence,”
in Studia Phaenomenologica: Romanian Journal
for Phenomenology, Vol. VI, 2006; 117-137.
- “Technology: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,”
in Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to
Ihde, ed. Evan Selinger. Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2006; 145-160.
- “Levinas, Plato and Ethical Exegesis,”
in Levinas Studies: An Annual Review, Vol. 1, ed. J.
Bloechl & J. L. Kosky. Pittsburgh, Duquesne University
Press, 2006, 37-50.
- “The Holocaust is Christian Issue; Christology
Revisited,” in Modern Believing: Church and
Society, Vol. 47, no. 1, January 2006; 28-43.
