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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher whose 1762 Social Contract argued that legitimate political authority re...

French Education Politics Enlightenment

9.2 Excellent

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne was a French Renaissance essayist whose Essays, first published in 1580, made skeptical self-examina...

French Renaissance Essays Skepticism

9.1 Excellent

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Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher and logician, founder of pragmatism, and a pioneer of semiotics and m...

American Logic Pragmatism Semiotics

9.1 Excellent

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Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher whose work on difference, desire, and cinema shaped postwar thought, including D...

French Metaphysics Continental Difference

9.1 Excellent

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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in Algeria in 1930, known for deconstruction and major works such as Of G...

Language French Metaphysics Deconstruction

9.0 Excellent

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Voltaire

Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher whose 1759 Candide satirized optimism and defended tolerance,...

French Religion Enlightenment Liberty

8.8 Great

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenologist whose Phenomenology of Perception (1945) emphasized embodiment and li...

Body French Perception Phenomenology

8.8 Great

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Montesquieu

Montesquieu was a French political philosopher whose 1748 Spirit of the Laws argued for separation of powers and compara...

French Law Politics Enlightenment

8.7 Great

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Emmanuel Levinas

Emmanuel Levinas was a Lithuanian-born French philosopher notable for making ethics a first philosophy in Totality and I...

French Ethics Phenomenology Otherness

8.7 Great

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot was a French philosopher who co-edited the Encyclopedie from 1751, making it a central project of Enlighte...

French Encyclopedia Materialism Enlightenment

8.6 Great

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Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson was a French philosopher, known for duration, creative evolution, and receiving the 1927 Nobel Prize in Li...

French Mind Duration Vitalism

8.6 Great

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Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur was a French philosopher whose hermeneutics linked phenomenology, language, and narrative identity in works...

French Narrative Ethics Hermeneutics

8.4 Great

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Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard was a 12th-century French scholastic philosopher whose Sic et Non used conflicting authorities to train di...

French Logic Medieval Ethics

8.2 Great

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English philosopher and feminist whose 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Woman argued for wom...

Feminism English Rights Enlightenment

8.2 Great

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Simone Weil

Simone Weil was a French philosopher and social critic, notable for writings on attention, affliction, labor, and mystic...

French Politics Ethics Mysticism

8.2 Great

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Donna Haraway

Donna Haraway is an American philosopher and theorist noted for A Cyborg Manifesto (1985), linking feminism, science stu...

American Science Feminism Posthumanism

8.1 Great

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Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard was a French philosopher and sociologist noted for theories of simulation and hyperreality, especially...

French Simulation Media Postmodernism

8.0 Great

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist and philosopher, known for the 1988 essay Can the Subaltern Sp...

Language Indian Feminism Postcolonial

8.0 Great

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Felix Guattari

Felix Guattari was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst who co-created schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze in Anti-Oedi...

French Politics Psychoanalysis Continental

7.6 Good

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Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan was a French writer born in 1364 whose Book of the City of Ladies defended women's learning and virtu...

French Medieval Ethics Feminism

7.2 Good