Michel Foucault (1926–1984)

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1. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977, The Politics of Truth (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

2. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, The Truth in Painting
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3. Gilles Deleuze

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

   Author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, Giving an Account of Oneself
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5. Walter Benjamin

   Author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
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6. Roland Barthes

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

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

   Author of Being and Time, Poetry, Language, Thought, The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays
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9. Edward W. Said

   Author of Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism
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10. Jürgen Habermas

    Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Knowledge and Human Interests, Legitimation Crisis
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11. Georges Bataille

    Author of Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14), Literature and Evil, On Nietzsche
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12. Fredric Jameson

    Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Political Unconscious, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic
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13. Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Author of The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence, 1982-1985
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14. Jacques Lacan

    Author of Ecrits: A Selection, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, Encore
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15. Friedrich Nietzsche

    Author of On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, The Will to Power, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
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16. Frantz Fanon

    Author of The Wretched of the Earth, Black Skin, White Masks
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17. Pierre Bourdieu

    Author of Outline of a Theory of Practice, On Television, Pascalian Meditations

18. Sigmund Freud

    Author of Civilization and Its Discontents, Totem and Taboo, Three essays on the theory of sexuality
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19. Slavoj Žižek

    Author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology
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20. Benedict Anderson

    Author of Imagined Communities
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