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Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
Slavoj Žižek
Slovenian philosopher (born 1949)
Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
Angela Davis
American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)
Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)
Jean Baudrillard
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist (1929–2007)
Jacques Lacan
French psychoanalyst and writer (1901–1981)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
German philosopher (1900–2002)
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998)
Robert Nozick
American political philosopher (1938–2002)
Emmanuel Levinas
Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher
Paul Ricœur
French philosopher (1913–2005)
Guy Debord
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic
Giorgio Agamben
Italian philosopher (b. 1942)
Fredric Jameson
American academic and literary critic (1934–2024)
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)
Pim Fortuyn
Dutch politician (1948–2002)
Luce Irigaray
Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist (born 1930)
René Girard
French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science
Félix Guattari
French psychoanalyst (1930–1992)
Nancy Fraser
American philosopher
Laura Mulvey
British feminist film theorist
Paul Virilio
French philosopher (1932–2018)
Homi K. Bhabha
Indian critical theorist (born 1949)
Charles Bernard Renouvier
French philosopher
Achille Mbembe
Cameroonian philosopher and political scientist (born 1957)
Sara Danius
Swedish academic
Axel Honneth
German philosopher
Karl-Otto Apel
German philosopher (1922–2017)
Wendy Brown
American political theorist
Seyla Benhabib
Turkish-American philosopher and political scientist (born 1950)
Eugen Fink
German philosopher (1905-1975)
Teresa de Lauretis
Italian academic
Lea Ypi
Albanian philosopher and professor of political theory at the London School of Economics
Gilles Lipovetsky
French philosopher, writer and sociologist
Suzanne Lilar
Flemish Belgian Francophone writer (1901–1992)
Douglas Rushkoff
American writer and media theorist
Lev Manovich
American academic (born 1960)
Walter Pohl
Austrian historian
Roberto Esposito
philosopher, university teacher (1950-)
Robert Phillipson
British linguist
Hamid Dabashi
American academic
Gáspár Miklós Tamás
Hungarian philosopher (1948–2023)
Kojin Karatani
Japanese philosopher
Anibal Quijano
Peruvian sociologist (1928-2018)
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Vietnamese-US American post-colonial difference theorist, composer and filmmaker
Ljubodrag Simonović
Serbian basketball player
Beatriz Sarlo
Argentine writer (1942–2024)
Moishe Postone
American historian, Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Modern History and the College, University of Chicago (1942–2018)
Douglas Kellner
American critical theorist, university professor
Martha Fineman
American legal scholar, feminist studies scholar
Nick Srnicek
Canadian writer and academic
Hans-Jürgen Krahl
German activist (1943–1970)
Wolfgang Fritz Haug
German philosopher
Anna G. Jónasdóttir
Icelandic political scientist
Chela Sandoval
Chicana and post-colonial feminist and theoretician
Ruth Glass
German-born British sociologist