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G. W. F. Hegel

G.W.F. Hegel was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his systematic exploration of logic, history, and human con...

German History Idealism Dialectic

9.5 Brilliant

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher of the Renaissance era. His work, particularly *The Prince*, offered a pr...

Italian Renaissance Politics Republicanism

9.2 Excellent

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Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a German philosopher associated with the Frankfurt School. His critical theory examine...

German Aesthetics Critical Theory Society

8.8 Great

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Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn was a 20th-century American philosopher and historian of science whose 1962 work The Structure of Scientific...

History 20TH Century Western Epistemology

8.8 Great

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Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci was an Italian philosopher who developed key ideas within Marxist thought. His work, particularly the Pr...

Italian Culture Politics Marxism

8.7 Great

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Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin was a significant 20th-century German philosopher whose work explored connections between philosophy, hi...

German History Aesthetics Critical Theory

8.6 Great

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George Berkeley

George Berkeley was an 18th-century Irish philosopher renowned for his radical philosophical ideas. His *Principles of H...

Empiricism Irish Early Modern Idealism

8.4 Great

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Theodor Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and leading member of the Frankfurt S...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Critical Theory Western

8.3 Great

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Friedrich Schelling

Friedrich Schelling was a prominent German philosopher known for his explorations of nature and metaphysics during the e...

Nature German Metaphysics Idealism

8.1 Great

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a prominent German philosopher of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He developed ideali...

German Politics Idealism Self

8.0 Great

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György Lukács

György Lukács was a Hungarian philosopher, literary critic, and Marxist theorist whose work influenced political philoso...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Political Western

8.0 Great

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Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno was an Italian Renaissance philosopher, former Dominican friar, and writer who developed a cosmology of a...

Italian Cosmology Renaissance Metaphysics

7.9 Good

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Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben is an Italian philosopher whose work spans political philosophy, linguistics, and aesthetics. He is best...

Italian Law Politics Continental

7.8 Good

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Jean-François Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher who lived from 1924 to 1998 and wrote on knowledge, politics, aesthetics,...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Political Western

7.8 Good

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Pierre Duhem

Pierre Duhem was a French physicist, philosopher, and historian of science who lived from 1861 to 1916. He argued that a...

History 20TH Century Western Epistemology

7.8 Good

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Susanne Langer

Susanne K. Langer was an American philosopher and educator recognized for her extensive work in aesthetics and the philo...

American Aesthetics Mind Symbols

7.7 Good

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Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher who lived from 1884 to 1962 and wrote influential works on epistemology, the h...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Western Epistemology

7.7 Good

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George Santayana

George Santayana was a Spanish-born American philosopher, critic, poet, and novelist who significantly influenced early...

American Spanish Aesthetics Naturalism

7.6 Good

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Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey was a 19th-century German philosopher who founded the philosophy of the human sciences, arguing that the...

History 19TH Century Western Epistemology

7.6 Good

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Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn was an 18th-century German-Jewish philosopher and a central figure of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenme...

Aesthetics Ethics Western Jewish

7.6 Good