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...
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...
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...
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...

Claude Lévi-Strauss

male, 100 years old
Claude Lévi-Strauss (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and c...
Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser

male, deceased (1990)
Louis Pierre Althusser (October 16, 1918 – October 23, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the prestigious Éc...
Roman Jakobson

Roman Jakobson

male, deceased (1982)
Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by pioneering the development...
Jonathan Culler

Jonathan Culler

male, 65 years old
Jonathan Culler (born 1944) is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. He is an important figure of the structuralism movement.
Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir

male, deceased (1939)
Edward Sapir, (January 26 1884 - February 4 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, a leader in American structural linguistics, and one of...