Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

male, deceased (1940)
cultural critic, Essayist, Literary critic, From Berlin, German, Western philosophy…historicalmaterialism
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the F...
Gerald Cohen

Gerald Cohen

male, 68 years old
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Academic of University College London, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, All Souls College, Oxford, September Group, Chichele Professor…historicalmaterialism
Gerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen, (born 1941) is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford. Born into a Jewish...

E. San Juan Jr.

male
Marxist writer, "Filipina Insurgency Writing Against Patriarchy", national liberation, Filipino writer in English, Gramscian, expatriate in the United States…historicalmaterialism
E. San Juan, Jr. is a Filipino cultural critic and public intellectual. His works span a broad spectrum of fields and disciplines, from cultural...
D. D. Kosambi

D. D. Kosambi

male, deceased (1966)
World Peace Movement, Banaras Hindu University alumni, Hindu, Marxist historian, Marxist, Numismatist…historicalmaterialism
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (July 31, 1907-June 29, 1966) was an Indian mathematician, statistician, and Sanskritist who contributed in genetics by...
Ludwik Krzywicki

Ludwik Krzywicki

male, deceased (1941)
hill forts, Żmudż starożytnia, W poszukiwaniu grodu Mendoga, Marxist theorist, University of Warsaw, kaunas…historicalmaterialism
Ludwik Krzywicki was a Polish anthropologist, economist, and sociologist. One of the early champions of sociology in Poland, he approached...
Alexandre Alves

Alexandre Alves

male, 35 years old
avant-gardes, avant-garde, Situationist International, montaigne, cynics, Stoicism…historicalmaterialism
Alexandre Alves is a Brazilian historian of ideas. In 2003, he concluded his doctoral thesis “Critique and Genealogy. The Reception of Nietzsche in...
Alexander Raven Thomson

Alexander Raven Thomson

male, deceased (1955)
fascist, Scottish, British, historicalmaterialism, capitalism, ideology
Alexander Raven Thomson (1899-1955) (known usually as simply Raven) was a leading figure in the British Union of Fascists and was considered to be...