John James Heidegger

male, deceased (1749)
John James (Johann Jacob) Heidegger, Swiss count and leading impresario of masquerades in the early part of the 18th century. The son of a Zürich c...
Johann Heinrich Heidegger

Johann Heinrich Heidegger

male, deceased (1698)
Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian, was born at Bäretswil, in the Canton of Zürich. He studied at Marburg and at Heidelberg, where he be...
Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

male, deceased (1976)
Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 - May 26, 1976) (pronounced) was a highly influential German philosopher. His best known work is "Being and...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

male, deceased (1961)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl. Merleau-Ponty was closely associated with...
Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Nancy

male, 69 years old
Jean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher. His first introduction to philosophy was in his youth in the Catholic environment of Bergerac. It is...
George Steiner

George Steiner

male, 80 years old
(Francis) George Steiner (born April 23, 1929, in Paris, France) is a prominent literary critic.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

male, deceased (1831)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, in the region of Württemberg in s...

Karl Löwith

male, deceased (1973)
Karl Löwith was a German-Jewish philosopher, a student of Heidegger. Like most of his ethnicity and profession he left Germany during the "...
Pierre Klossowski

Pierre Klossowski

male, deceased (2001)
Pierre Klossowski was a French writer, translator and artist. Born in Paris, Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on the Marquis de Sade and...
Emanuele Severino

Emanuele Severino

male
Emanuele Severino is one of the most important contemporary Italian philosophers. Because of his philosophical original position, often called...