Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997)

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1. Isaiah Berlin

   Author of Karl Marx: His Life and Environment, Personal Impressions, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin

2. Hannah Arendt

   Author of The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, On Revolution

3. Bernard Williams

   Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 57), Moral Luck

4. John Rawls

   Author of A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, The Law of Peoples

5. Peter Gay

   Author of Freud: A Life for Our Time, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Science of Freedom

6. Edmund Wilson

   Author of To the Finland Station, Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, Memoirs of Hecate County

7. Richard Rorty

   Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Philosophy and Social Hope, Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy (Ideas in Context)

8. Stuart Hampshire

   Author of The Age of Reason: The 17th Century Philosophers, Spinoza

9. Karl Marx

   Author of Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, The Poverty of Philosophy

10. Karl Popper

    Author of Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics), The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics), The open society and its enemies
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11. Ernst Cassirer

    Author of The Myth of the State, Kant's Life and Thought, The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

12. Herbert Marcuse

    Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

13. Jacques Barzun

    Author of From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, The House of Intellect, A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works

14. Leszek Kolakowski

    Author of Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown, Modernity on Endless Trial, Metaphysical Horror

15. Isaac Deutscher

    Author of The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921, The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929, The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940

16. Ronald Dworkin

    Author of Law's Empire, Taking Rights Seriously

17. Henry David Aiken

    Author of The Age of Ideology

18. Charles Taylor

    Author of Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Hegel, Hegel and Modern Society (Modern European Philosophy)

19. H. L. A. Hart

    Author of The Concept of Law, Law, Liberty, and Morality, Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law

20. Michael Walzer

    Author of Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, On Toleration (Castle Lectures Series), Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad (FRANK COVEY LOYOLA L)