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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (French pronunciation: [ʒak dɛʁida]) (15 July 1930 – 8 October 2004) was a French philosopher born in Algeria, who is known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work had a profound impact upon literary theory and continental philosophy. Derrida's best known work is Of...
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Paul Auster
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author known for works blending absurdism and crime fiction, such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989) and The Brooklyn Follies (2005).
Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey,...
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl fuko]), born Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), was a French philosopher, sociologist and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of...
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Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. (born April 1, 1942, New York City) is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and nonfiction essays on...
Judith Butler
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliott professor in the...
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Antonio Negri
Antonio "Toni" Negri (born August 1, 1933) is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher.
Negri is perhaps best-known for his co-authorship of Empire and his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in...
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born February 24, 1942) is an Indian literary critic and theorist. She is best known for the article "Can the Subaltern Speak?", considered a founding text of postcolonialism, and for her translation of Jacques Derrida's...
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben (born 1942 in Rome) is an Italian philosopher who teaches at the Università IUAV di Venezia. He also teaches at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and...
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Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American architect. Eisenman's fragmented forms are identified with an eclectic group of architects that have been labeled as deconstructivists. Although Eisenman shuns the label, he...
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Lévy (born November 5, 1948) is a French public intellectual, philosopher and journalist. Often referred to today, in France, simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouvelle Philosophie" (New Philosophy) movement in 1976....
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Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Robert Vizenor (born 1934) is a Native American (Anishinaabe) writer, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. One of the most prolific Native American writers, with over 30 books to his name, Vizenor...
John D. Caputo
John D. Caputo (born October 26, 1940) is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University and the founder of weak theology. Much of Caputo's work focuses on hermeneutics, phenomenology, deconstruction, and theology.
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Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy (born July 26, 1940) is a French philosopher.
Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre (The Title of the Letter, 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with...
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009) was an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory (queer studies), and critical theory. Her works reflect a serious and abiding interest in a wide range of issues and topics,...
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Ernesto Laclau
Ernesto Laclau (b.1935 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine political theorist often described as post-Marxist. He is a professor at the University of Essex where he holds a chair in Political Theory and was for many years director of the doctoral...
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Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller (January 9, 1929 – December 30, 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most...
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Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman (born 19 November 1925 in Poznań) is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic campaign, engineered by the Communist government which he had previously supported....
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Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk (born June 26, 1947 in Karlsruhe) is a German philosopher and a professor of philosophy and media theory at the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe.
Sloterdijk studied philosophy, German studies and history at the University of...
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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (March 6, 1940, Tours – January 27, 2007, Paris) was a French philosopher. He was also a literary critic and translator.
Lacoue-Labarthe was influenced by and wrote extensively on Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Jacques...
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Jane Gallop
Jane (Anne) Gallop (born 1952) is a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Much of her work centers on reading Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, particularly in the context of the...
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Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley (born February 27, 1960 in Hertfordshire) is an English philosopher currently teaching at The New School. He works in continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, literature, ethics and politics.
Critchley argues that...
Benny Lévy
Benny Lévy (aka Pierre Victor) was a philosopher, political activist and author. A political figure of May 1968 in France, he has been the disciple and last personal secretary of Jean-Paul Sartre from 1974 to 1980. Along with him, he helped founding...
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Edward Said
Edward Wadie Saïd (pronounced /'edwərd wædiːʕ sæʕiːd/ Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد, Idwārd Wadīʿ Saʿīd; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian American literary theorist, cultural critic, and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was...
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Jean-Luc Marion
Jean-Luc Marion (born 3 July 1946) is among the best-known living philosophers in France, former student of Jacques Derrida and one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. Marion's take on the postmodern is richly enhanced by his expertise...
Richard JF Day
Richard J. F. Day (born c. 1964) is a Canadian political philosopher and sociologist. He is the undergraduate chair and professor in the department of global development at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada He was previously associate...
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Stanley Rosen
Stanley Rosen (born July 29, 1929) is an American philosopher. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he is currently Professor Emeritus at Boston University. His wide range of research includes metaphysics, political philosophy, and history of western philosophy...
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Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler (born April 1, 1952) is a French philosopher and Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. His best known work is Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus.
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Homi K. Bhabha
Homi K. Bhabha (born 1949) is an Indian postcolonial theorist. He currently teaches at Harvard University where he is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Director of the Humanities Center.
Bhabha was...
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Sarah Kofman
Sarah Kofman (September 14, 1934 – October 15, 1994) was a French philosopher.
Kofman was the author of numerous books, including several on Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. Her book, L'énigme de la femme: La femme dans les textes de Freud ...
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Miško Šuvaković
Miško Šuvaković (Serbian: Мишко Шуваковић) (Miodrag Šuvaković), Prof. Dr., is a contemporary aestheticist, art theorist and ex-conceptual artist born in 1954 in Yugoslavia, Belgrade. He was co-founder and member of conceptual artistic Group 143 ...
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Adriana Cavarero
Adriana Cavarero (born 1947 in Bra, Italy) is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She holds the title of Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli studi di Verona. She has also held visiting appointments at the University of...
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Mario Kopic
Mario Kopić (born 13 March 1965) is a philosopher, author and translator. His main areas of interest include: History of Political Ideas, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Culture, Phenomenology and Philosophy of Religion.
Mario Kopić was born in...
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Angana P. Chatterji
Angana P. Chatterji (born in November 1966) is an anthropologist and feminist historian. Born and raised in Calcutta, India, she is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a progressive,...
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R. Radhakrishnan
Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, commonly known as R. Radhakrishnan, is professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and is considered one of the leading postcolonial theorists and literary critics in the United...
