Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) is the author of Time and the Other,Totality and Infinity,Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, and many other philosophical texts.
Nidra Poller is the translator of Ahmadou Kourouma's Monnew and Michael Jeanneret's Perpetual Motion.
Richard A. Cohen is the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the translator of many Levinas books.