Emmanuel Levinas (19051995) French philosopher, moralist, formulated in a new form the universal moral maxim, or imperative, enriching it with deep semantic content expressing the ripened spiritual needs of the era. E. Levinas developed an ethical concept of genuine relationships that affected, would transform human communication, culture as a whole; at the heart of the moral and metaphysical principles of the teaching of E. Levinas a critical analysis of the spiritual situation of modern Western society Developing traditions that go back to M. Buber, G. Marcel, M. Bakhtin, other prominent thinkers of the era, E. Levinas comes to believe that philosophy is first and foremost the wisdom of compassion, the wisdom of love. This volume includes the following works by E. Levinas: “From Existence to Existence”, “Totality and the Infinite”, “Racurses” and a number of others, as well as dedicated to the work of E. Levinas essay by Jacques Derrida "Violence and Metaphysics" .