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• Theodor Adorno
• Louis Althusser
• Roland Barthes
• Walter Benjamin
• Lauren Berlant
• Homi Bhabha
• Jean Baudrillard
• Susan Bordo
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Judith Butler
• Teresa de Lauretis
• Gilles Deleuze
• Jacques Derrida
• Mikhail Epstein
• Franz Fanon
• Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault ( October 15, 1926 June 26, 1984) was a French philosopher and "historian of systems of thought". His writings have had an enormous impact on many fields including literary criticism and theory, philosophy (especially philosophy of science
• Félix GuattariFelix Guattari ( 1930 1992) was a French pioneer of institutional psychotherapy, as well as the founder of both Schizoanalysis and the science of Ecosophy. Biography Not very well known to the general public, Pierre Felix Guattari was in the 1960s to beco
• Jürgen HabermasJurgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929 in Dusseldorf, Germany) is a philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory. His work focuses on the foundations of social theory and epistemology, the analysis of advanced capitalist industrial soc
• Max HorkheimerAdorno (front right); Jurgen Habermas in back, right. Heidelberg, 1965. Max Horkheimer ( February 14, 1895 July 7, 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist, known especially as the founder and guiding thinker of the Frankfurt School of critical theo
• Julia KristevaJulia Kristeva is a famous contemporary Bulgarian philosopher who lives and works in France. Life and work to be added A useful introduction can be found on. Bibliography In English, from http://www. text-semiotics. org/Kristeva. html#eng Kristeva et al.
• Jacques LacanJacques Lacan ( April 13, 1901 September 9, 1981) was an influential French psychoanalyst. Life Lacan's life is summarised in a timeline. Work Lacan reiterated and clarified Sigmund Freud's findings. In contrast to the dominant Anglo-American ego-psycholo
• Leo Löwenthal
• Herbert MarcuseHerbert Marcuse ( July 19, 1898 to July 29, 1979) was a prominent German- American philosopher and sociologist of the Frankfurt School. Herbert Marcuse was born in Berlin, served as a soldier in the First World War and then participated in the aborted soc
• Karl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx ( May 5, 1818 March 14, 1883) was an influential German economist, philosopher, social and political theorist. Although Marx addressed many issues in his career as a journalist and philosopher, he is most famous for his analysis of hist
• Oskar Negt
• Friedrich Pollock
• Edward Said
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
• Paul Virilio
• Slavoj Zizek