Giorgio Agamben

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1. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
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2. Giorgio Agamben

   Author of The Open: Man and Animal, The Man Without Content (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics), Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

3. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, The Truth in Painting
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4. Gilles Deleuze

   Author of A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Cinema 1: Movement-Image
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5. Alain Badiou

   Author of Metapolitics, Polemics, Manifeste pour la philosophie

6. Walter Benjamin

   Author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

7. Carl Schmitt

   Author of The Concept of the Political, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, Political Romanticism

8. Jean-Luc Nancy

   Author of The Inoperative Community, Being Singular Plural, A Finite Thinking (Cultural Memory in the Present)

9. Maurice Blanchot

   Author of The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire", The Writing of the Disaster, The Infinite Conversation (Theory and History of Literature)

10. Jacques Rancière

    Author of The Politics of Aesthetics, The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing, La parole muette : Essai sur les contradictions de la littérature

11. Slavoj Žižek

    Author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology
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12. Judith Butler

    Author of Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence, Giving an Account of Oneself, Antigone's Claim
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13. Georges Bataille

    Author of Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14), Literature and Evil, Theory of Religion

14. Jacques Lacan

    Author of The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan), The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

15. Michael Hardt

    Author of Empire, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, Commonwealth

16. Theodor W. Adorno

    Author of Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Aesthetics and Politics, Critical Models

17. Louis Althusser

    Author of For Marx, Reading Capital, The Future Lasts Forever: A Memoir

18. Fredric Jameson

    Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic, Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist

19. Martin Heidegger

    Author of The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays, Off the beaten track (Holzwege), Parmenides [GA 54]

20. Paul de Man

    Author of Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, The Resistance to Theory