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...
Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

male, deceased (2004)
Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous...
Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

male, deceased (1980)
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)
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)
Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 - September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor. Lacan’s ‘return to the meani...
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...
Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu

male, deceased (2002)
Pierre Bourdieu was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines: from philosophy and...
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

female, 67 years old
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born February 24 1942) is a literary critic and theorist. She is best-known for the article "Can the Subaltern Speak?",...
Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot

male, deceased (2003)
Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist.