Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

male, deceased (1984)
AIDS-related death, Sociologist, University of California, Berkeley faculty, University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric theorist, structuralist…Postmoderntheory
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...
Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

male, deceased (2004)
twentieth-century French philosophy, French philosophy, Rhetoric theorist, Sephardi Jew, deconstruction, Rhetorician…Psychoanalytic theory, Postmoderntheory, Literary theory
Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous...
Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard

male, deceased (2007)
Seduction theorist, post-structuralism, Continental philosopher, cultural theorist, French, Culture theory…Postmoderntheory
Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 - March 6, 2007) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is...
Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

male, deceased (1980)
French road accident victim, LGBT writer, From France, Pedestrian road accident victim, Literary theorist, gay…Literary theory, Postmoderntheory, social theory
Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980) (pronounced) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and...
Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze

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

Jacques Lacan

male, deceased (1981)
The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, castration complex, Psychoanalysts, ego, Poststructuralism, Postmoderntheory…Critical theory, Psychoanalytic theory
Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 - September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor. Lacan’s ‘return to the meani...

Jean-François Lyotard

male, deceased (1998)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Postmodernism, Rhetorician, philosopher, Social philosophy, deconstruction…Postmoderntheory, Literary theory
Jean-François Lyotard (pronounced) was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well-known for his articulation of Postmodernism after t...
Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva

female, 68 years old
novelist, foucault, semiotic, levi-strauss, todorov, barthes…cultural theory, Postmoderntheory, Psychoanalytic theory
Julia Kristeva (born 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who...
Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio

male, 77 years old
French, philosopher, Social philosophy, Postmoderntheory, technology, Urbanist…Culture theory
Paul Virilio (born 1932 in Paris) is a cultural theorist and urbanist. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in...