Gilles Deleuze
French renowned philosopher known for co-writing Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972).
Guy Debord
French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, & founder of a Letterist faction & the Situationist International.
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher & historian who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx.
Baruch Spinoza
Dutch philosopher born in 1632 known for his book, the Ethics, which opposed mind-body dualism.
Marsilio Ficino
Italian scholar, Catholic priest, astrologer, & influential humanist philosopher of the early Italian Renaissance.
Roland Barthes
French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, & semiotician born in 1915.
Erasmus
Dutch philosopher & Christian scholar born in 1469. Considered a great scholar of the northern Renaissance.
Augustine de Hippo
Theologian, philosopher, & writer who influenced the development of Western philosophy & Christianity.
Michel Foucault
French philosopher, historian, & theorist known for Discipline & Punish and The History of Sexuality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher, essayist, & cultural critic who widely influenced Western philosophy.