Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

male, deceased (2004)
Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous...
Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

male, deceased (1976)
Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 - May 26, 1976) (pronounced) was a highly influential German philosopher. His best known work is "Being and...
Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

male, deceased (1984)
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 Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

male, deceased (1980) (United States)
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced:), was a French...
Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard

male, deceased (2007)
Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 - March 6, 2007) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is...
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

male, deceased (1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and...
Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

male, deceased (1938)
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology. His work broke away from the purely positivist...
Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze

male, deceased (1995)
Gilles Deleuze, (January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death,...
Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

male, deceased (1941)
Henri-Louis Bergson (October 18, 1859-January 4, 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

male, deceased (1961)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl. Merleau-Ponty was closely associated with...