Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

male, 77 years old
Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel "The Name of the...
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...
Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure

male, deceased (1913)
Ferdinand de Saussure (November 26, 1857 – February 22, 1913) was a Geneva-born Swiss linguist whose ideas laid the foundation for many of the si...
Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva

female, 68 years old
Julia Kristeva (born 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who...
Charles Peirce

Charles Peirce

male, deceased (1914)
Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced "purse"), (September 10, 1839 - April 19, 1914) was an American polymath, physicist, and philosopher, born in...
Thomas Sebeok

Thomas Sebeok

male
Thomas Albert Sebeok (born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 9, 1920, died December 21, 2001 in Bloomington, Indiana) was one of the most prolific...
Marcel Danesi

Marcel Danesi

male, 63 years old (Mississauga, Ontario , Canada)
Marcel Danesi has a PhD in Italian linguistics, and taught Italian for twenty-five years at the University of Toronto, where he is now the director...

John Deely

male
John Deely (born 1942) is Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies of the University of St. Thomas (Houston). His main research...
Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin

male, deceased (1975)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who wrote influential works of literary and...
Yuri Lotman

Yuri Lotman

male, deceased (1993)
Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (also Juri, Jüri, Jurij - a prominent Russian formalist critic, semiotician, culturologist. He was the founder of s...