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Simone Weil
Simone Weil (French pronunciation: [simɔn vɛj]; 3 February 1909 in Paris, France – 24 August 1943 in Ashford, Kent, England), was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.
Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to...
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ kamy]) (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism (the...
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky,
- Friedrich Nietzsche,
- Victor Hugo,
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- Friedrich Nietzsche,
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- Richard Wright
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- Jonathan Franzen,
- Tom Stoppard,
- Günter Grass,
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- Tom Stoppard,
Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz [ˈt͡ʂɛswaf ˈmiwɔʂ] ( listen) (June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In...
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky,
- Simone Weil,
- Leopold Staff,
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- David Biespiel
Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an English author and philosopher, best known for her novels about sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in...
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky,
- Jean-Paul Sartre,
- Marcel Proust,
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- Jean-Paul Sartre,
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- Alice Munro
Mario Puzo
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was a two time Academy Award-winning Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, especially The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film with...
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- Honoré de Balzac,
- Simone Weil
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- Ricardo Rodriguez Jr.
Anne Carson
Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. She is...
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- Simone Weil
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- Shannon Bramer
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist.
An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and...
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- William Faulkner,
- Thomas Aquinas,
- Simone Weil
- Thomas Aquinas,
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- Raymond Carver,
- Liesel Litzenburger,
- Shannon Bramer,
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- Liesel Litzenburger,
George Grant
George Parkin Grant OC, D.Phil., FRSC (Toronto, November 13, 1918 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 27, 1988) was a Canadian philosopher, teacher and political commentator, whose popular appeal peaked in the late 1960s and 1970s. He is best known...
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- Leo Strauss,
- Aristotle,
- Augustine of Hippo,
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- Aristotle,
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D. Z. Phillips
Dewi Zephaniah Phillips (24 November 1934 – 25 July 2006), known as D. Z. Phillips, Dewi Z, or simply DZ, was a leading proponent of Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion and had a long academic career spanning five decades. At the time of his...
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- Simone Weil,
- Immanuel Kant,
- Ludwig Wittgenstein,
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- Immanuel Kant,
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Roger Woolger
Roger Woolger is a psychotherapist, lecturer and author specializing in past life regression spirit release and shamanic healing.
He was educated at the University of Oxford and King's College London, where he gained degrees in psychology, religion...
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- Sigmund Freud,
- Carl Jung,
- Wilhelm Reich,
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- Carl Jung,
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- Andy Tomlinson
