Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

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1. Walter Benjamin

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

2. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), The Politics of Truth (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

3. Roland Barthes

   Author of Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, The Pleasure of the Text, Image-Music-Text

4. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International

5. Gilles Deleuze

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

6. Theodor W. Adorno

   Author of Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Aesthetic Theory, Prisms

7. Fredric Jameson

   Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Political Unconscious, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic

8. Giorgio Agamben

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

9. Martin Heidegger

   Author of Being and Time, Poetry, Language, Thought, The basic problems of phenomenology [Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie [GA 24]]

10. Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Author of The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence, 1982-1985, Libidinal Economy (Continuum Impacts)

11. Georg Lukács

    Author of History and Class Consciousness, The Theory of the Novel, Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought

12. Max Horkheimer

    Author of Dialectic of Enlightenment, Eclipse of Reason (Eclipse of Reason Ppr), Critical Theory (Critical Theory Ppr)

13. 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)

14. Michel de Certeau

    Author of The Practice of Everyday Life, Heterologies: Discourse on the Other (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 17)

15. Louis Althusser

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

16. Michail Bachtin

    Author of The Dialogic Imagination: Four essays by M.M. Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World

17. Terry Eagleton

    Author of Literary Theory: An Introduction, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory, New Edition

18. Jacques Lacan

    Author of Ecrits: A Selection, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, Le séminaire, livre 10 : L'angoisse

19. Susan Buck-Morss

    Author of The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, Origin of Negative Dialectics

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