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I was privileged to take my first-year historiography seminar with Professor Levine -- sitting in his living room, surrounded by a portion of his magnificent book collection. Lecturing softly, generally half smiling, he turned the course into a stately survey of European intellectual history in general. He encouraged us to contemplate the implications of our discipline's station among the humanities -- its importance to our understanding of personhood, human nature, religion, and natural science.
I am relieved that Professor Levine's suffering is over, but I am very sorry to have lost him.