Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

male, deceased (2004)
twentieth-century French philosophy, French philosophy, Rhetoric theorist, Sephardi Jew, deconstruction, Rhetorician…Continental philosopher, Continentalphilosophy
Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous...
German Philosophy

German Philosophy

male
continental, European philosopher, nietzsche, schopenhauer, German-language philosopher, leibniz…Continentalphilosophy, philosophy, analytic philosophy, Philosophy by region
German philosophy, here taken to mean either (1) philosophy in the German language or (2) philosophy by Germans, has been extremely diverse, and...
Quentin Smith

Quentin Smith

male
Prometheus Books, Western Michigan University, philosophy of time, philosophy of physics, physical cosmology, metaphysics…philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, Continentalphilosophy, Philosophy academic, Philosophy of mind
Quentin Smith is a philosopher and professor of philosophy at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is most well-known for his...
Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley

male, 49 years old
New School University, philosophy, British, philosopher, deconstruction, Academic of the University of Essex…Continentalphilosophy, Professor of Philosophy
Simon Critchley (born February 27, 1960) is an influential British philosopher, working in continental philosophy, history of philosophy,...
Robert C. Solomon

Robert C. Solomon

male, deceased (2007)
University of Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, University of Michigan, phenomenology, philosopher…Continentalphilosophy
Robert C. Solomon (September 14, 1942 - January 2, 2007) was a distinguished professor and scholar of continental philosophy at the University of...
Mark C. Taylor

Mark C. Taylor

male, 63 years old
Columbia University, Harvard University, Continentalphilosophy, religion, American, philosophy…Continental philosopher
Mark C. Taylor (born 13 December 1945) is a philosopher of religion and cultural critic who has published more than twenty books on theology,...
Karl-Otto Apel

Karl-Otto Apel

male
C.S. Pierce, Continentalphilosophy, philosopher, German-language philosopher, German, analytical…analytical philosophy, continental
Karl-Otto Apel is a German philosopher. He is a Professor Emertus at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Apel's work brings together the...

Andrew Benjamin

male, 57 years old
Alumni of the University of Warwick, Australian, university of warwick, architecture, monash university, theodor adorno…Continentalphilosophy
Andrew Benjamin is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Critical Theory at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Benjamin first came to...

Peter Dews

male, 57 years old
British, Logics of Disintegration, Alumni of the University of Southampton, post-structuralism, Academic of the University of Essex, Queens' College, Cambridge…Continentalphilosophy
Peter Kenneth Dews (born 22 April 1952) is a British philosopher, in the fields of critical theory and continental philosophy. He made his name...
Giovanna Borradori

Giovanna Borradori

female, 46 years old
la repubblica, vassar college, deconstruction, Liberalism, Critical theory, Continentalphilosophy
Giovanna Borradori is Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. Borradori was born in Milan, Italy, in 1963. Since 1989, she has lived in the...