René Descartes (1596-1650)
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Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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Montesquieu (1689-1755)
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Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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Rene Girard (1923-2015)
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Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
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Arthur M. Young (1905-1995)
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Jean Hyppolite (1907-1968)
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
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Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
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Jean Lerond d'Alembert (1717-1783)
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Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
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Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
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Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)
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Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991)
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Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
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Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
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Simone Weil (1909-1943)
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Tristan Garcia, 43
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Raymond Aron (1905-1983)
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Guy Debord (1931-1994)
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Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655)
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Born in France
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Felix Guattari (1930-1992)
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Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
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Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)
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Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005)
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Michel de Certeau (1925-1986)
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Gilles Lipovetsky, 80
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Ernest Gellner (1925-1995)
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Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)
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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007)
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Michel Villey (1914-1988)
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