Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)

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1. Gaston Bachelard

   Author of The Poetics of Space, Psychoanalysis of Fire, The Poetics of Reverie

2. Walter Benjamin

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3. Roland Barthes

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4. Gilles Deleuze

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5. Rem Koolhaas

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6. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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7. Jacques Derrida

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8. Michel de Certeau

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9. Georges Bataille

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10. Robert Venturi

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11. Henri Lefebvre

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12. Henri Bergson

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13. Martin Heidegger

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14. Emil Cioran

    Author of A Short History of Decay, The Temptation to Exist, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

15. George Steiner

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16. Maurice Blanchot

    Author of The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire", The Writing of the Disaster, Le Livre à venir

17. Michel Foucault

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18. Yi-Fu Tuan

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19. Claude Lévi-Strauss

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20. Ernst Cassirer

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