Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

male, deceased (1989)
waiting for godot, Happy Days, humour, Death from emphysema, optimism, Aosdána…cultural
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally...
Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel

female, 49 years old
Commerce & Culture, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Regulation, Classical liberal, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine…cultural
Virginia I. Postrel (born 14 January 1960) is an American political and cultural writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views. She is...
Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu

male, deceased (2002)
symbolic violence, Literary theory, habitus, philosophy, field, Embodiment…cultural capital, cultural
Pierre Bourdieu was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines: from philosophy and...
Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

male, 75 years old
Fellowship of Southern Writer, From Louisville, Kentucky, cultural critic, Kentucky writer, short stories, Man of Letters…cultural
Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Henry County, Kentucky) is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He...
Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

male, 75 years old
Duke University, theorist, comparative literature, Postmodernism, Literary critic, Duke University faculty…cultural
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is a literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for the analysis of contemporary...
Eli Broad

Eli Broad

male, 76 years old
Art collector, Forbes 400, Jewish, Business Person, from Detroit, Business person in real estate…cultural
Eli Broad is well known for his philanthropy and extensive art collection. A strong advocate of the city, he is actively involved in the on-going...
Laura Schlessinger

Laura Schlessinger

female, 62 years old
Radio personality, American conservatism, American self-help writer, Jewish person, children's writer, Former atheists and agnostic…cultural
Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and conservative commentator, most known as host of the popular "Dr....
Susan Block

Susan Block

female
Dr. Suzy, ethical, San Francisco Bay Guardian, LA WEEKLY, Hedonism, sexologist…cultural
Susan Marilyn Block, Ph.D., also known as Dr. Susan Block and Dr. Suzy, is an American sexologist, author, filmmaker, therapist, cable TV talk show...
M. Shahid Alam

M. Shahid Alam

male
Kyklos, University of Karachi, University of Dhaka, East Pakistan, Northeastern University, Boston, Asia Times…cultural
Bio: M. Shahid Alam is a professor of economics at Northeastern University, Boston.

Elizabeth Grosz

female, 57 years old
University of Sydney, suny buffalo, Elizabeth A. Grosz, monash university, Academic, Feminist…cultural
Elizabeth A. Grosz is a feminist academic living and working in the USA. She is known for philosophical interpretations of the work of French...