| |  | Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous... |  | Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 - May 26, 1976) (pronounced) was a highly influential German philosopher. His best known work is "Being and... |  | Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France, giving it the t... |  | Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced:), was a French... |  | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and... |  | Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology. His work broke away from the purely positivist... |  | Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl. Merleau-Ponty was closely associated with... |  | Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 - February 26, 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern... |  | Søren Aabye Kierkegaard 5 May, 1813 - 11 November, 1855) was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly c... |  | Emmanuel Lévinas was a French philosopher and Talmudic commentator. | |
