Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

male, deceased (2004)
twentieth-century Frenchphilosophy, French philosophy, 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...
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

male, deceased (1980) (United States)
philosopher, existentialism, French, twentieth-century Frenchphilosophy, French philosophy, 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...
Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

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

Alexandre Kojève

male, deceased (1968)
twentieth-century Frenchphilosophy, Russian-French, Marxist theorist, philosopher, political philosopher, hegelian…French
Alexandre Kojève (April 28 1902 - June 4 1968) was a Marxist and Hegelian political philosopher, who had a substantial influence on t...