Fields of Contemporary Thought
PHILOSOPHY IN THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY
AND BEYOND
Aside from philosophers related to contemporary movements and schools, I have also added a page for philosophers from throughout the "modern" philosophical era (approximately the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentieth century). That is HERE .
This page, however, is devoted to philosophy and philosophers of importance in the mid- and late twentieth century. This will include many different thinkers who are connected to the phenomenon known as "postmodernism". This page is organized by schools/fields of thought. I have also added pages with brief definitions of philosophical terms , religious/theological terms , and Marxist terms .
PHILOSOPHERS OF MODERNITY AND LATE MODERNITY
Bacon, Francis
Bentham, Jeremy
Bergson, Henri
Berkeley, George
Brentano, Franz
Comte, Auguste
Croce, Benedetto
Descartes, René
Dewey, John
Dilthey, Wilhelm
Durkheim, Emile
Engels, Friedrich
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Hegel, G.W.F.
Hume, David
James, William
Kant, Immanuel
Kierkegaard, Søren
Leibniz, Gottfried
Locke, John
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Marx, Karl
Meinong, Alexius
Mill, J.S.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Peirce, Charles
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Santayana, George
Schelling, Friedrich
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Sidgwick, Henry
Spinoza, Baruch
Vico, Giambattista
Weber, Max
Wollstonecraft, Mary
PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHOANALYSTS
Adler, Alfred
Allport, Gordon
Angyal, Andras
Bandura, Albert
Benjamin, Jessica
Bettelheim, Bruno
Binet, Alfred
Binswanger, Ludwig
Boss, Medard
Bugental, James
Buytendijk, F.J.J.
Cattell, Raymond
Chodorow, Nancy
Combs, Arthur
Copjec, Joan
DeForest, Izette
Dolar, Mladen
Ellis, Albert
Erikson, Erik
Eysenck, Hans
Ferenczi, Sandor
Flax, Jane
Frankl, Victor
Freud, Anna
Freud, Sigmund
Fromm, Erich
Fromm-Reichmann, Frieda
Gendlin, Eugene T.
Gilligan, Carol
Goldstein, Kurt
Horney, Karen
Jung, Carl
Kelly, George
Klein, Melanie
Koffka, Kurt
Kohlberg, Lawrence
Köhler, Wolfgang
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
Lacan, Jacques
Laing, R.D.
Langeveld, Jan Martinus
Lewin, Kurt
Lorenz, Konrad
Maddi, Salvatore
Mannoni, Octave
Maslow, Abraham
May, Rollo
Mitchell, Juliet
Pavlov, Ivan
Perls, Fritz
Piaget, Jean
Rank, Otto
Reich, Wilhelm
Rogers, Carl
Rose, Jacqueline
Salecl, Renata
Skinner, B.F.
Snygg, Donald
Straus, Erwin
Sullivan, Harry Stack
Thompson, Clara
Van Den Berg, J.H.
Vygotsky, Lev
Watson, John B.
Wertheimer, Max
Wundt, Wilhelm
Zizek, Slavoj
Zupancic, Alenka
LITERARY CRITICS, LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHERS, AESTHETIC THEORISTS
Acker, Kathy
Auerbach, Erich
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Barth, John
Barthes, Roland
Beardsley, Monroe C.
Benveniste, Émile
Blackmur, R.P.
Blanchot, Maurice
Bleich, David
Bloom, Harold
Bogatyrev, Piotr
Booth, Wayne C.
Brooks, Cleanth
Bürger, Peter
Burke, Kenneth
Butor, Michel
Cassirer, Ernest
Cavell, Stanley
Chomsky, Noam
Cixous, Hélène
Collingwood, R.G.
Croce, Bendetto
Culler, Jonathan
Danto, Arthur C.
Derrida, Jacques
Dewey, John
Dickie, George
Dufrenne, Mikel
Duras, Marguerite
Eagleton, Terry
Eco, Umberto
Eichenbaum, Boris
Empson, William
Fiedler, Leslie
Fish, Stanley
Flynn, Elizabeth A.
Frye, Northrop
Gates, Jr., Henry Louis
Gennette, Gérard
Gombrich, E.H.
Graff, Gerald
Greimas, A.J.
Hassan, Ihab
Hirsch, E.D.
Holland, Norman
Ingarden, Roman
Iser, Wolfgang
Jakobson, Roman
Jauss, Hans
Johnson, Barbara
Leavis, F.R.
Man, Paul de
Miller, J. Hillis
Olson, Charles
Propp, Vladimir
Ransom, John Crowe
Ricardou, Jean
Richards, I.A.
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Rosenblatt, Louise
Said, Edward
Sarduy, Severo
Sarraute, Nathalie
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Scruton, Roger
Shklovsky, Viktor
Simon, Claude
Sollers, Phillippe
Sontag, Susan
Tate, Allen
Tilghman, Ben
Tomashevsky, Boris
Tynianov, Yuri
Ulmer, Gregory
Warning, Rainer
Warren, Austin
Wellek, Rene
White, Hayden
Williams, Raymond
Wimsatt, W.K.
Winters, Yvor
FEMINISTS
Addelson, Kathryn Pyne
Alcoff, Linda
Anzaldua, Gloria
Atkinson, Ti-Grace
Badinter, Elisabeth
Bar On, Bat-Ami
Barrett, Michèle
Bartky, Sandra Lee
Beauvoir, Simone de
Benhabib, Seyla
Benjamin, Jessica
Bordo, Susan
Braidotti, Rosi
Brownmiller, Susan
Budapest, Zsuzanna
Butler, Judith
Carr, Anne E.
Cavarero, Adriana
Chawaf, Chantal
Chodorow, Nancy
Christ, Carol
Cixous, Hélène
Clément, Cathérine
Code, Lorraine
Cornell, Drucilla
Daly, Mary
Davis, Angela Y.
Dworkin, Andrea
Ebert, Teresa
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Eisenstein, Zillah
Ellman, Mary
Firestone, Shulamith
Flax, Jane
Fraisse, Genevieve
Fraser, Nancy
Friedan, Betty
Friedman, Marilyn
Frye, Marilyn
Gatens, Moira
Gilligan, Carol
Goldenberg, Naomi
Greer, Germaine
Griffin, Susan
Grosz, Elizabeth
Grould, Benoîte
Gumbutas, Marija
Halimi, Gisèle
Haraway, Donna
Harding, Sandra
Hartsock, Nancy C.M.
hooks, bell
Irigaray, Luce
Ivekovic, Rada
Jaggar, Alison
Jauch, Ursula Pia
Johnson, Elizabeth A.
Johnston, June
Keller, Evelyn Fox
Klinger, Cornelia
Kofman, Sarah
Kollontai, Alexandra
Kristeva, Julia
Leclerc, Annie
Le Doeuff, Michele
Lemoine-Luccioni, Eugénie
List, Elisabeth
Lorde, Audre
Macciocchi, Maria Antoinetta
Mackinnon, Catharine
McFague, Sallie
Merchant, Carolyn
Mitchell, Juliet
Mohanty, Chandra T.
Moller, Susan Okin
Morris, Meaghan
Nicholson, Linda
Oliver, Kelly
Pateman, Carole
Radcliffe Richards, Janet
Rich, Adrienne
Rose, Jacqueline
Ruether, Rosemary Radford
Russell, Letty M.
Schor, Naomi
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth
Spelman, Elizabeth V.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravarty
Starhawk
Steinem, Gloria
Wittig, Monique
Wolf, Naomi
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Young, Iris Marion
Zetkin, Clara
Zerilli, Linda
Ziarek, Ewa
If you want to go straight to the alpabetized list of philosophers, go right ahead:
A through H
I through P
Q through Z
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