Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

male, deceased (1984)
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...
Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard

male, deceased (2007)
Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 - March 6, 2007) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is...
Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

male, 75 years old
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is a literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for the analysis of contemporary...
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

male, deceased (1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and...
Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

male, 66 years old
Terry Eagleton (born 22 February, 1943 in Salford, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England) is a British literary critic.

Jean-François Lyotard

male, deceased (1998)
Jean-François Lyotard (pronounced) was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well-known for his articulation of Postmodernism after t...
Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan

male, deceased (1980)
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English...
Steven Best

Steven Best

male, 54 years old
Steven Best (born December 1955) is an American animal rights activist, author, talk-show host, and associate professor of philosophy at the...
Ken Wilber

Ken Wilber

male, 60 years old
Kenneth Earl Wilber Jr. (b. January 31, 1949, Oklahoma City, USA), is an American integral thinker and author. Working outside the academic...

Linda Hutcheon

female
Linda Hutcheon is a Canadian academic, literary theorist, and feminist. She is University Professor in the Department of English and of the Centre...