Alain Badiou

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1. Alain Badiou

   Author of Metapolitics, Manifesto for Philosophy: Followed by Two Essays: "the (Re)Turn of Philosophy Itself" and "Definition of Philosophy" (Su, Manifeste pour la philosophie

2. Gilles Deleuze

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

3. Slavoj Žižek

   Author of Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor

4. Giorgio Agamben

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

5. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, The Truth in Painting

6. Martin Heidegger

   Author of Being and Time, Poetry, Language, Thought, History of the concept of time : prolegomena [Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs [GA 20]]

7. Jacques Rancière

   Author of The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing

8. Louis Althusser

   Author of For Marx, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx (Radical Thinkers)

9. Fredric Jameson

   Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Prison-House of Language, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic

10. Jacques Lacan

    Author of The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, Encore, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

11. Jean-Luc Nancy

    Author of The Inoperative Community, Being Singular Plural, The Birth to Presence

12. Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Author of The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time, Postmodern Fables

13. Peter Hallward

    Author of Badiou: A Subject to Truth, Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation, Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers Series)

14. Carl Schmitt

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

15. Michael Hardt

    Author of Empire, Commonwealth, Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy

16. Theodor W. Adorno

    Author of Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Aesthetic Theory, Aesthetics and Politics

17. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

    Author of The Visible and the Invisible, Sense and Nonsense (SPEP), Signs

18. David Harvey

    Author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism, The Limits to Capital, New Edition, The New Imperialism (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies)

19. Emmanuel Levinas

    Author of Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, Otherwise Than Being: Or Beyond Essence, Time and the Other

20. Georges Bataille

    Author of Accursed Share, Vol. 1: Consumption, The Accursed Share, Vols. 2 and 3: The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty