- Michel Foucault
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 title "History of Systems of Thought," and taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as his work on the history of sexuality. - Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 - March 6, 2007) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism. - Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is a literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for the analysis of contemporary cultural trends; he described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of organized capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include "Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism", "The Political Unconscious", and "Marxism and Form". - Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. Nietzsche began his career as a philologist before turning to philosophy. - Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton (born 22 February, 1943 in Salford, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England) is a British literary critic. - Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard (pronounced) was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well-known for his articulation of Postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. - Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is well-known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village". - Steven Best
Steven Best (born December 1955) is an American animal rights activist, author, talk-show host, and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has been described as "one of the leading scholarly voices on animal rights." Best is co-founder of the Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA), the first group dedicated to the philosophical discussion of animal liberation. - Ken Wilber
Kenneth Earl Wilber Jr. (b. January 31, 1949, Oklahoma City, USA), is an American integral thinker and author. Working outside the academic mainstream, he has drawn on a variety of disciplines including psychology, sociology, philosophy, mysticism, postmodernism, science and systems theory to formulate what he characterizes as an integral theory of consciousness. He is a leading proponent of the Integral thought movement, and founded the Integral Institute in 1998. - Linda Hutcheon
Linda Hutcheon is a Canadian academic, literary theorist, and feminist. She is University Professor in the Department of English and of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where she has taught since 1988. In 2000 she was elected the 117th President of the Modern Language Association, the third Canadian to hold this position, and the first Canadian woman. She specializes in theories of postmodernism. - Paul de Man
Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 - December 21, 1983) was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard in the late 1950s. He then taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Zurich, before ending up on the faculty in French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was considered part of the Yale School of deconstruction. - Charles Jencks
Charles Jencks (b. 1939) is an American architect, landscape architect and architectural theorist. His books on the history and criticism of Modernism and Postmodernism were widely read in architectural circles and beyond. Born in Baltimore, he first studied English Literature at Harvard University, later gaining an MA in architecture from the Graduate School of Design in 1965. He also has a PhD in Architectural History from University College, London. - Martin Amis
Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a British novelist. His works include such novels as "London Fields" (1989). Influenced by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Sir Kingsley Amis, he has inspired numerous writers, including Will Self and Zadie Smith. - Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), and he received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. - Ihab Hassan
Ihab Hassan (born 1925) is an Egyptian literary theorist. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, and emigrated to the United States in 1946. Currently he is Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. His writings include "Radical Innocence: The Contemporary American Novel" (1961), "The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature" (1971) and "The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture" (1987). - John Fowles
John Robert Fowles (March 31, 1926 - November 5, 2005) was an English novelist and essayist. He was born in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, England, the son of Robert J. Fowles, a prosperous cigar merchant, and his wife, Gladys Richards. After attending Bedford School and Edinburgh University, he studied at New College, Oxford, where he studied both French and German, although he dropped German and concentrated on French for his BA. After his studies, … - Paul Feyerabend
Paul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades (1958-1989). His life was a peripatetic one, as he lived at various times in England, the United States, New Zealand, Italy, and finally Switzerland. His major works include "Against Method" (published in 1975), … - Charles Olson
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Subsequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the Language School, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure. - Steven Shaviro
Steven Shaviro is an American cultural critic. His most widely read book is "Doom Patrols", a "theoretical fiction" that outlines the state of postmodernism during the early 1990s, using poetic language, personal anecdotes, and creative prose. Additionally, Shaviro has written a book about film theory, "The Cinematic Body", which examines the dominance of Lacanian tropes in contemporary academic film theory. - Keith Windschuttle
Keith Windschuttle (born 1942) is an Australian writer who is the author of several books, including "Unemployment" (1979) which analyses the economic causes and social consequences of unemployment in Australia and advocates a socialist response, "The Media: a New Analysis of the Press, Television, Radio and Advertising in Australia" (1984) on the political economy and content of the news and entertainment media, "The Killing of History", (1994), … - Richard Wolin
Richard Wolin is an intellectual historian. He is Distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he has worked since 2000. He is known for a series of attacks on postmodernism in general, and on particular contributors to and sources of its late twentieth century formulation, including Nietzsche and Heidegger. Before going to CUNY, he was a professor at Rice University in Houston, Texas. - Larry McCaffery
Larry McCaffery is a literary critic, editor, and professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. McCaffery's work focuses on post-modern literature, science fiction, contemporary fiction. He is best known for editing "Storming the Reality Studio", a post-modern anthology featuring the fictional work of authors such as William Gibson, Samuel Delany, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, and Harold Jaffe. - Lance Olsen
Lance Olsen is an American postmodern writer. - Keith Jenkins
Keith Jenkins is a British proponent of postmodern history. Jenkins has attacked what he sees to be "traditional" approaches to history, suggesting that most writing about the past is nothing more than a literary construct. He states that history is a 'problematic discourse' and that facts and history float on separate spectrums. He also believes that historians are inevitably "ideologically positioned", … - Millard Erickson
Millard J. Erickson (b.1932) is a Christian theologian, professor of theology, and author. He has written the widely acclaimed systematics work "Christian Theology" as well as over 20 other books. Currently, Erickson is Distinguished Professor of Theology at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He was professor of theology and academic dean at Bethel University seminary for many years. He also taught at Baylor University. - Robert A. M. Stern
Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, (born May 23 1939) is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture. Before taking that post, he was professor of architecture at Columbia and director of Columbia's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1960 and a master's degree in architecture from Yale in 1965. - Ricardo Bofill
Ricardo Bofill (born December 5, 1939) is a Spanish architect born in Catalonia of Jewish descent. He was born in Barcelona and studied at the Architectural School in Barcelona, and later in Geneva. Bofill is one of the main representatives of postmodernism in architecture. In 1983 he received a grant from the Graham Foundation to deliver a lecture in Chicago. - John Hawkes
John Hawkes, born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr., was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended the traditional constraints of the narrative. Born in Stamford, Connecticut, and educated at Harvard University, Hawkes taught at Brown University for thirty years. Although he published his first novel, "The Cannibal", in 1949, it was "The Lime Twig" (1961) that first won him acclaim. - Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski (born March 5, 1966) is an American author. He is the son of Polish avant-garde film director Tad Danielewski and the brother of singer and songwriter Annie Decatur Danielewski, a.k.a. Poe. Danielewski studied English Literature at Yale. He was rejected from every writing seminar he applied for, but completed undergraduate studies there. He then decided to move to Berkeley, California, … - Mikhail Epstein
Mikhail N. Epstein (Epshtein) (born 1950) is an American literary theorist and critical thinker. He is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University (Atlanta, USA). He has authored 15 books and approximately 400 essays and articles, translated into 14 languages (in library catalogs they are listed under his Russian surname Epshtein). His areas of specialization include postmodernism, cultural theory, … - Ellen Meiksins Wood
Ellen Meiksins Wood (born 1942 in New York City) is an historian and critic who has made signal contributions to social thought in the Marxist vein, achieving international recognition. A scholar of classical and early modern political thought, she has extended her reach well beyond that scholarly field to contribute substantially to the understanding of the historical emergence of capitalism, the nature of modern imperialism, … - Duane Hanson
Duane Hanson (January 17, 1925 - January 6, 1996) was an artist based in South Florida, a sculptor known for his life-sized realistic works of people, cast in various materials, including polyester resin, fiberglass, "Bondo" and bronze. He was born in Alexandria, Minnesota. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College in 1946 and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1951. - Walter J. Ong
Father Walter Jackson Ong, Ph.D. (November 30, 1912 - August 12, 2003), was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian and philosopher. - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (March 4 1951 - November 5 1982) was an American novelist most famous for her 1982 work, "Dictee." She was born in Pusan, Korea during the Korean War. Her family eventually moved to the United States and settled in California. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Comparative Literature and an M.F.A.from the University of California, Berkeley. - Manfredo Tafuri
Manfredo Tafuri (Rome, Italy, 1935-Venice, Italy, 1994) was an Italian architectural and art/social theorist and historian. He is noted for contrasting the "operative critique" of much architectural historians like Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Nikolaus Pevsner and Charles Jencks. He also has been anti-modern and anti-postmodern. During the Seventies he wrote some crucial essays for "Oppositions", the architecture magazine directed by Peter Eisenman. - Stephen Tong
Stephen Tong is a Christian evangelist born in Fujian, China in 1940. He is an Indonesian national and resides in the city of Jakarta. He has preached to more than twenty million people during his 49-year ministry all over the world. He began serving as a minister of the Gospel at the age of 17 (1957). His speciality in evangelism is to lead people back to Christ through Reformed Theology Bible principles. As an evangelist who embarks in Reformed theology, … - Raymond Tallis
Raymond Tallis (born Liverpool, England) - Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester. As well as being a leading figure in British gerontology Tallis has also written numerous books on philosophy and is perhaps best known for his attack on postmodernism in books such as "Not Saussure" and for his attack upon the assumptions of much artificial intelligence research in his book "Why the Mind is Not a Computer". - John Burgee
John Burgee is an American architect important in post-modern architecture. 1956 graduate of University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Burgee's honors also include the Reynolds Prize in Architecture. Burgee served on the Notre Dame University's Board of Trustees from 1988 until April when he was named trustee emeritus. He also has served on the School of Architecture's Advisory Council since 1982. - Janet Albrechtsen
Janet Albrechtsen commenced writing part-time in 1999, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald , The Age , the Australian Financial Review and Quadrant , and became a weekly contributor to The Australian in 2002. After receiving her law degree from the University of Adelaide, she moved to Sydney and worked as a commercial lawyer. She has a doctorate in law from the University of Sydney law school and has taught as an academic. She is a member of the Foreign Affairs Council. - Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Louise (Landman) Huxtable (b. March 14 1921, in New York, N.Y) is an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished criticism". Her Father, Louis was in New Zealand working at the Department of Inland Revenue, and her mum, Sonja, was an accountant in Inland Revenue too. Her brother, Johan, was at a school that is unknown anymore. Ada Louise Landman received an A. B. (magna cum laude) from Hunter College, …
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