Danielle Cohen-Levinas

Danielle Cohen-Levinas serves as Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University since 1998, with dual research affiliations as Founder and Head of the “College of Jewish Studies and Contemporary Philosophy – Emmanuel Levinas Center” (EA 3552) since 2008 and Associate Researcher at the Husserl Archives of the ENS-CNRS in Paris (UMR8547) since 2010.

Her interdisciplinary research spans:

• Aesthetics and Philosophy of Music
• Music and Metaphysics
• Opera and Dramaturgy
• Music/Poetry/Literature relationships
• French and Contemporary Phenomenology
• German Jewish Philosophy (Strauss, Scholem, Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Buber)
• Levinasian Studies
• Philosophy of Religion
• Philosophy/Poetry/Literature intersections

Current work focuses on integrating musical analysis with Jewish philosophical traditions through the Levinas Center and Husserl Archives, examining metaphysical dimensions in opera and cross-disciplinary connections between poetry, literature, and phenomenology.