Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

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

Michel Foucault

male, deceased (1984)
AIDS-related death, Sociologist, University of California, Berkeley faculty, University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric theorist, structuralist…French, Social philosophy, Philosophy of sexuality, French philosopher, Frenchphilosophy
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...
Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze

male, deceased (1995)
committed suicide, Poststructuralism, Anti-psychiatry, Anti-Oedipus, Frenchphilosophy, The Logic of Sense…French, Social philosophy, philosophy
Gilles Deleuze, (January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death,...
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

male, deceased (1980) (United States)
philosopher, existentialism, French, twentieth-century French philosophy, Frenchphilosophy, World War II prisoner of war
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced:), was a French...
René Descartes

René Descartes

male, deceased (1650)
mathematician, philosopher, stockholm, died 11.2.1650, died in stockholm, born 31.3.1596…Father of Modern Philosophy, French philosopher, Frenchphilosophy, Principles of Philosophy, French
René Descartes (March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650), also known as "Renatus Cartesius" (latinized form), was a highly influential French p...
Warren Montag

Warren Montag

male
professor, English, Frenchphilosophy, English Restoration, occidental college, restoration…French
Warren Montag is a professor and academic, currently teaching at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He received his B.A. from...