G. A. Cohen (1941–2009)

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1. Karl Marx

   Author of Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, The Poverty of Philosophy, Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations

2. Perry Anderson

   Author of Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from antiquity to feudalism, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism: Wellek Library Lectures

3. G. A. Cohen

   Author of Karl Marx's Theory of History, If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?, Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory)

4. Jon Elster

   Author of Making Sense of Marx (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory), Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality

5. Allen W. Wood

   Author of Hegel's Ethical Thought, Karl Marx (Arguments of the Philosophers)

6. Isaiah Berlin

   Author of Four Essays on Liberty, Karl Marx: His Life and Environment

7. John Rawls

   Author of Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, The Law of Peoples, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy

8. Samuel Freeman

   Author of The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Rawls (Routledge Philosophers), Justice and the Social Contract: Essays on Rawlsian Political Philosophy

9. Derek Parfit

   Author of Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks), On What Matters: Volume I, On What Matters, Vol. 2

10. T. M. Scanlon

    Author of What We Owe to Each Other, The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy

11. Christine M. Korsgaard

    Author of The Sources of Normativity

12. Michael J. Sandel

    Author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy

13. Michael Walzer

    Author of Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, Thinking Politically: Essays in Political Theory

14. C.B. Macpherson

    Author of The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford Paperbacks), Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval

15. Joseph Raz

    Author of The Morality of Freedom (Clarendon Paperbacks), Value, Respect, and Attachment (The Seeley Lectures)

16. Friedrich Engels

    Author of Anti-Duhring

17. E.P. Thompson

    Author of The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays

18. David Harvey

    Author of The Limits to Capital, New Edition

19. Harry Braverman

    Author of Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

20. Leszek Kolakowski

    Author of Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders